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Elisa Bonnin

Oceanography

University of Washington

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Göttingen, in Göttingen, Germany. My research looks at how chemicals preserved in the shells of foraminifera, a type of marine zooplankton, can tell us about the climate of the past. I study this because I care about future climate change, and learning how Earth's climate changed in the past is a valuable tool that lets us predict how its climate will change in the future.

Elisa has authored 6 articles

Melting sea ice gives phytoplankton the space to pump out cloud-forming gasses

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With warming temperatures, microscopic plankton are creating big clouds that could further affect Arctic temperatures

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This is how climate change is reshaping the entire planet

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The ocean is acidifying, Western Europe will chill, crops will fail, and that's just the start

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Ancient plankton have climate data hidden in their shells

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Scientists have discovered a new way to use single-celled plankton to estimate large-scale changes in ocean chemistry

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Ancient Romans never reached Greenland, but the emissions from their silver mining did

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Ice cores, used to study ancient climates, also contain the history of the Roman Empire

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How atmospheric dust might help cool the planet

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New research suggests an old idea of geoengineering has more merit than long suspected

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To predict the future of Southern California's seas, scientists are looking to the past

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The west's dramatic coastlines have masked rising tides, but that doesn’t mean the future is dry

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