R. Mark Leckie

Research Interests

Earth system history and paleoceanography, with a particular emphasis on biosphere response to changes in the ocean-climate system
Planktic and benthic foraminifera of Cretaceous and Cenozoic age
Mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events and plankton community evolution
Late Cretaceous paleoceanography and sequence stratigraphy of the Western Interior Sea
Campanian-Maastrichtian paleoceanography of the tropical Pacific
Miocene paleoceanography and sea level of the western tropical-subtropical Pacific
Oligocene and Miocene planktic foram taxonomy

Contact Information

University of Massachusetts
Department of Geosciences
611 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003