Donna Surge

The Paleoclimatology & Paleoecology Laboratory at UNC - Chapel Hill is a teaching and research facility in the Department of Geological Sciences. It is primarily used to prepare mollusk shells (e.g., clams, mussels, limpets, and oysters) and fish otoliths for sclerochronological (incremental growth features) and geochemical analyses.

Jeff Dorale

Jeff Dorale's Laboratory houses a CM-2 microsampler. The CM-2 is equipped with epi-fluorescence, and a whole stalagmite option. Research activities involve examination of ancient climate change using stable isotope ratios and U-series dating of stalagmites.

Lowell Stott

Lowell Stott's stable isotope laboratory houses a CM-2 microsampler. The CM-2 is equipped with epi-fluorescence, and a whole stalagmite option. Research activities involve examination of ancient climate using stable isotope ratios and U-series dating of stalagmites.

Amy Frappier

Amy Frappier's laboratory houses a CM-2 microsampler. The CM-2 is equipped with epi-fluorescence, and a whole stalagmite option. Research activities involve examination of ancient climate using stable isotope ratios and U-series dating of stalagmites.

Amy's reserach examines climate change records in the tropical stalagmites. Her research activity is developing new tools for reconstructing past environmental hazards such as hurricane activity (paleotempestology) and explosive tropical volcanism (tephrochronology). Another area of exploration involves tracing the links between climate, tropical forest carbon cycling, and the sedimentary record in cave systems. Speleothem-based research is currently focused in the tropical regions of Central America and the Caribbean.