Owen Sherwood
Assistant Professor
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Email: Owen.Sherwood@dal.ca
Phone: +1 902 494 3604
Fax: +1 902 494 6889
Mailing Address:
1459 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS B3H 4R2
CANADA
Office:
Life Sciences Centre
3rd floor, Ocean Wing
Rm. 3613
- Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry
- Paleoceanography
- Coral Reefs
- Petroleum Geology
Current Research
Teaching
Education
- Ph.D. (Earth Sciences), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, July 2006.
- M.Sc. (Geology), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, October 2002.
- B.Sc. (Geology), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, April 2000.
Research Opportunities
Project 1. MSc or PhD, Summer 2018, Funding expected for tuition, fees, stipend, and research costs. Generation and preservation of stable isotope signals in the sedimentary record. Initiating in summer of 2018 with full funding expected, this project will examine the underlying mechanisms by which the carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids are preserved during export and burial of marine organic matter in the sedimentary record. Research involves regular field sampling in Bedford Basin, NS, laboratory incubation experiments, and use of state of the art organic geochemical analytical methods.
Project 2. MSc, Summer 2018, Funding expected for tuition, fees, stipend, and research costs. A novel proxy for sea ice algae. Initiating in summer of 2018 with full funding expected, this project will develop a new geochemical proxy for ice algal productivity using the carbon isotopic composition of amino acids preserved in sediments. This involves a research cruise to Baffin Bay in summer 2018 and use of state of the art organic geochemical analytical methods.
Project 3. PhD Position in Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry at Dalhousie University