My research focuses on micropaleontology with special emphasis on Foraminifera as paleoenvironmental proxies in basin analysis. My expertise lies in Mesozoic basins of Western and Arctic Canada and the Canadian West Coast. Much of my work focuses on the Cretaceous Period and its paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes. This phase and its superb record in North America offers an intriguing and infinite research topic with many unsolved perplexities. Over the last 30 years I studied North America's Cretaceous inland and polar seas over a transect of nearly 5000 km encompassing over 30 degrees paleolatitudes. This large-scale regional approach allows to shed light on ancient ocean pass ways and biotic migration, differentiation between local and global biotic events, documentation of dominant paleoenvironmental controls and their change through time, and identification of marine crisis episodes and their recoveries. The Canadian Arctic with its extraordinary geological exposures offers a rewarding laboratory to explore the response of a polar region to an earth phase marked by a greenhouse climate.
I am presently conducting a multi-year geological investigation assessing a number of sedimentary basins in both the Eastern and Western Arctic regions to produce a Cretaceous pan-Arctic, multi-fossil, biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic framework to improve our understanding of large-scale paleogeographic and paleoecological reconstructions. This research is funded by NSERC with the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program and ConocoPhillips as supporting partners. Field expeditions in the Arctic would not be possible without the unfailing support of Polar Continental Shelf.
Recently, I was awarded the Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation that allowed me to work at the University of Frankfurt in support of my collaboration with Prof. Herrle on Arctic basin analysis. I have completed a three year term on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant Selection Committee and I served as Chair of Carleton’s Earth Sciences Department from 2003 to 2006. My passion for teaching field-based courses has brought my students as far as the Antarctic Peninsula. I am also active in several science outreach programs. My strong collaboration with researchers at the Canadian Museum of Nature has fostered Carleton's Program in Vertebrate Paleontology, which attracts undergraduate and graduate students alike.
I am presently conducting a multi-year geological investigation assessing a number of sedimentary basins in both the Eastern and Western Arctic regions to produce a Cretaceous pan-Arctic, multi-fossil, biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic framework to improve our understanding of large-scale paleogeographic and paleoecological reconstructions. This research is funded by NSERC with the Geological Survey of Canada's GEM Program and ConocoPhillips as supporting partners. Field expeditions in the Arctic would not be possible without the unfailing support of Polar Continental Shelf.
Recently, I was awarded the Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation that allowed me to work at the University of Frankfurt in support of my collaboration with Prof. Herrle on Arctic basin analysis. I have completed a three year term on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant Selection Committee and I served as Chair of Carleton’s Earth Sciences Department from 2003 to 2006. My passion for teaching field-based courses has brought my students as far as the Antarctic Peninsula. I am also active in several science outreach programs. My strong collaboration with researchers at the Canadian Museum of Nature has fostered Carleton's Program in Vertebrate Paleontology, which attracts undergraduate and graduate students alike.
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Our work in the Arctic has been very rewarding in many ways. Our 2014 expedition to Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere islands gave rise to the production of a science documentary entitled 'Arctic Greenhouse' that had its premiere in 2017 at the Canadian Museum of Nature and has been widely distributed as science educational outreach material.
See film trailer to the left and the full film can be found here: https://mediaspace.carleton.ca/media/1_hgr7zmaf |
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At the end of December 2013 thirteen students and I traveled to the Antarctic Peninsula with Students on Ice to study the geological history of the Southern Ocean and its ecosystem. This video showcases our journey.
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Contact
Dr. Claudia Schröder-Adams
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
Email: claudia.schroderadams@carleton.ca
Telephone (613) 520-2600 ext 1852
Fax: (613) 520-2569
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
Email: claudia.schroderadams@carleton.ca
Telephone (613) 520-2600 ext 1852
Fax: (613) 520-2569
