Team

Juan Carlos Silva-Tamayo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston.

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Manuel Paez

Manuel is a new PhD student at the EAS Department of the University of Houston. Manuel is currently sponsored by the Colombian Research Council, Colciencias. He is investigating how changes in ocean oxygenation during the Cretaceous, i.e. the Ocenaic Anoxic events, affected the marine life in tropical seas

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Lucien Nana Yobo

Lucien is a new PhD student at the EAS Deparment of the University of Houston. Nana received his B.S. in Geology from Fresno State University. He is interested on the investigation of stratigraphy, sedimentology an Geochemestry of Carbonate Sediments.

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Deniz Erdal

Deniz Erdal is a new Msc student at the EAS Department of the University of Houston. Deniz is sponsored by the Turkish Petroleum Company and is investigating changes in the Eocene-Miocene carbonate factory in Jamaica. He is using multy proxies to further investigate the causes of the Miocene Carbonate crash along the Caribbean.

Mario Lara

Mario Lara is a young researcher sponsored by the Colombian Research Council, Colciencias (www.colciencias.gov.co). Mario is currently investigating how changes in the stratigraphy of Oligocen-Miocene continental to transition sucessions croping out along northern Colombia relate to the colition between Central and South America at 13 Ma and to potential changes in Miocene Climate

Ana Milena Salazar

Ana Milena is a young research scientist sponsored by the Colombian Research Council, Colciencias (www.colciencias.gov.co). Ana will be investiating the climatic vs tectonic facotrs controling the evolution of the marine carbonate factory along the Cenozoic San Jacinto Basin.

Jana Meixnerová

Jana is a visiting young researcher sponsored by the German Acadmic Exchange Service. Jana got the prestigious DAAD schoolarship (https://www.daad.de/rise-weltweit/en/). Jana will be performing multi-elemental analyses in Cretaceous black shales. Her research aims on investigating changes in ancient ocean redox.

Past Members

Felipe Lamus, M.S.

Now at Corporacion Geologica ARES
Professor University of The Andes, Bogota

Sebastian Rosero, M.S.

Now at Antek SAS

Hefer Nomesqui

Now at Antek SAS

Carolina Bedoya

Now at Colombian Institute of Marien Research, INVEMAR

Catalina Ramirez

Now at Corporacion Geologica ARES, Bogota, Colombia