Dr Jessica H Whiteside BSc (Hons), MSc, MPhil, DPhil (with distinction)

Associate Professor of Geochemistry

Dr Jessica H Whiteside is Associate Professor within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

Visiting Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jan 2013 to present

Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, October 2006 to July 2013

Columbia University Earth & Environmental Sciences PhD (with distinction) 2006

Columbia University Earth & Environmental Sciences MPhil, 2004

Columbia University Earth & Environmental Sciences MA, 2003

Mount Holyoke College, Geology BA (Hons) 2001

Research

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Teaching

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Research interests

Mechanisms of mass extinctions and ecosystem response
Ecologic resilience during intervals of abrupt climate change
Nature of forcings during transitions between greenhouse and icehouse worlds

Research group

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

Research Associate in Paleobiology, US Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) Oct 2011-present.

IODP Scientist, Leader of Chemistry Group, Expedition 342: Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts. June-July 2012. Recovery of continuous marine records through multiple extreme climate transients (hot transients: PETM, K-Pg boundary, Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events; cold transients: early Oligocene, Oligocene-Miocene glacial maxima).

Colorado Plateau Drilling Project Team Member. Project targeted at identifying and constraining deep-time records of extraordinary ecosystem change related to constrained perturbation - the extrinsically forced effects of the giant Late Triassic Manicouagan impact. Coring begins in October 2013.

Scientific Coring Team Member for K-Pg Boundary Project at El Kef, Tunisia, funded by NSF Earth-Life Transitions program. Coring to commence in late 2013.

NSF Earth-Life Transitions initiative-invited contributor for what developed into a new multi-million dollar NSF funding program in deeptime paleoclimate research, 2011-12.

Field trip leader for NEIGC, GSA, SEPM GAC-MAC, NAPC, Royal Museum of Scotland, UK, and British Geological Association, 2000-present.

Climate and environmental change liaison to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Spring 2012-present.

Session chair and organiser for American Geophysical Union 2010, for EGU 2011, and for three sessions at American Geophysical Union 2012.

Public Media: Coordinated with numerous media outlets for press articles, including The Economist, BBC, Science News, Wired, The Washington Post, Discovery News, etc., 2009-present; “Animal Armageddon”, Animal Planet, 2009; "The Nature of Things", CBC, 2007.

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Articles

Olsen, P. E., Geissman, J. W., Kent, D. V., Gehrels, G. E., Mundil, R., Irmis, R., ... the CPCD team (2018). Colorado Plateau Coring Project, Phase I (CPCP-I): A continuously cored, globally exportable chronology of Triassic continental environmental change from western North America. Scientific Drilling, 24, 15-40. DOI: 10.5194/sd-24-15-2018
McKay, R., Exon, N., Müller, D., Gohl, K., Gurnis, M., Shevenell, A., ... Wortmann, U. G. (2018). Developing community-based scientific priorities and new drilling proposals in the southern Indian and southwestern Pacific oceans. Scientific Drilling, 24, 61-70. DOI: 10.5194/sd-24-61-2018
Percival, L. M. E., Ruhl, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Jenkyns, H. C., Mather, T. A., & Whiteside, J. H. (2017). Mercury evidence for pulsed volcanism during the end-Triassic mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(30), 7929–7934. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705378114
Whiteside, J. H., & Grice, K. (2016). Biomarker records associated with mass extinction events. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 44(1), 581-612. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012501
Lindström, S., Irmis, R. B., Whiteside, J., Smith, N. D., Nesbitt, S. J., & Turner, A. H. (2016). Palynology of the upper Chinle Formation in northern New Mexico, U.S.A.: Implications for biostratigraphy and terrestrial ecosystem change during the Late Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 225, 106-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.11.006
Kasprak, A. H., Sepulveda, J., Price-Waldman, R., Williford, K. H., Schoepfer, S. D., Haggart, J. W., ... Whiteside, J. H. (2015). Episodic photic zone euxinia in the northeastern Panthalassic Ocean during the end-Triassic extinction. Geology, 43(4), 307-310. DOI: 10.1130/G36371.1
Whiteside, J. H., Lindström, S., Irmis, R. B., Glasspool, I. J., Schaller, M. F., Dunlavey, M., ... Turner, A. H. (2015). Extreme ecosystem instability suppressed tropical dinosaur dominance for 30 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(26), 7909-7913. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505252112
Irmis, R. B., Whiteside, J. H., & Kammerer, C. F. (2013). Non-biotic controls of observed diversity in the paleontologic record: an example from the Permo-Triassic Karoo Basin of South Africa. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 372, 62-77. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.014
Irmis, R. B., & Whiteside, J. H. (2012). Delayed recovery of non-marine tetrapods after the end-Permian mass extinction tracks global carbon cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1732), 1310-1318. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1895
Huth, T., Porder, S., Chaves, J., & Whiteside, J. H. (2012). Soil carbon and nutrient changes associated with deforestation for pasture in southern Costa Rica. Biotropica, 44(5), 661-667. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00863.x
Whiteside, J. H., & Ward, P. D. (2011). Ammonoid diversity and disparity track episodes of chaotic carbon cycling during the early Mesozoic. Geology, 39(2), 99-102. DOI: 10.1130/G31401.1
Whiteside, J. H., Grogan, D. S., Olsen, P. E., & Kent, D. V. (2011). Climatically driven biogeographic provinces of Late Triassic tropical Pangea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(22), 8972-8977. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102473108
Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Eglinton, T. I., Cornet, B., McDonald, N. G., & Huber, P. (2011). Pangean great lake paleoecology on the cusp of the end-Triassic extinction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 301(1-4), 1-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.11.025
Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Eglinton, T., Brookfield, M. E., & Sambrotto, R. N. (2010). Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth's largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(15), 6721-6725. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001706107
Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., & Whiteside, J. H. (2010). Implications of the Newark Supergroup-based astrochronology and geomagnetic polarity time scale (Newark-APTS) for the tempo and mode of the early diversification of the Dinosauria. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 101(3-4), 201-229. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011020032
Irmis, R. B., & Whiteside, J. H. (2010). Newly integrated approaches towards understanding Late Triassic terrestrial ecosystems. Palaios, 25(11), 689-691. DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.S06
Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Fowell, S. J., & Et-Touhami, M. (2008). Synchrony between the Central Atlantic magmatic province and the Triassic–Jurassic mass-extinction event? Reply to Marzoli et al. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 262(3-4), 194-198. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.02.010
Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Fowell, S. J., & Et-Touhami, M. (2007). Synchrony between the Central Atlantic magmatic province and the Triassic–Jurassic mass-extinction event? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 244(1-4), 345-367. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.035
Margulis, L., Dolan, M. F., & Whiteside, J. H. (2005). “Imperfections and oddities” in the origin of the nucleus. Paleobiology, 31, 175-191. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0175:IAOITO]2.0.CO;2
Margulis, L., Sagan, D., & Whiteside, J. (2005). The evolution of composite individuality: From cells to cities. Kosmos, (April), 23-25.
Dolan, M. F., Wier, A. M., Melnitsky, H., Whiteside, J. H., & Margulis, L. (2004). Cysts and symbionts of Staurojoenina assimilis Kirby from Neotermes. European Journal of Protistology, 40(4), 257-264. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2004.01.005

Book

Norris, R. D., Wilson, P. A., Expedition 342 Scientists, . U., Liebrand, D., & Whiteside, J. (2012). Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 342 Preliminary Report. Paleogene Newfoundland Sediment Drifts, 1 June–30 July 2012. (IODP Preliminary Report; No. 342). College Station, TX, USA: International Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc. DOI: 10.2204/iodp.pr.342.2012

Book Chapters

Whiteside, J. H. (2011). Medical symbiotics. In L. Margulis, C. A. Asikainen, & W. E. Krumbein (Eds.), Chimeras and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self (pp. 63-72). MIT Press.
Olsen, P. E., & Whiteside, J. H. (2009). Pre-Quaternary Milankovitch cycles and climate variability. In V. Gornitz (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (pp. 826-835). (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences). Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Whiteside, J. H. (2004). Arboreal stromatolites: a 210-million year record. In M. D. Lowman, & B. Rinker (Eds.), Forest Canopies, 2nd ed (pp. 147-149). Burlington, US: Academic Press.
Sagan, D., & Whiteside, J. H. (2004). Gradient-reduction theory: thermodynamics and the purpose of life. In S. H. Schneider, J. R. Miller, E. Crist, & P. J. Boston (Eds.), Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century (pp. 173-186). Cambridge, US: MIT Press.
Sagan, D., & Whiteside, J. H. (2004). Prismatic progress. In D. Rothenberg, & W. J. Pryor (Eds.), Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution (pp. 63-72). Cambridge, US: MIT Press.

Conferences

Olsen, P. E., Whiteside, J. H., LeTourneau, P. M., & Huber, P. (2005). Jurassic cyclostratigraphy and paleontology of the Hartford basin. In B. J. Skinner, & J. T. Cheney (Eds.), 97th New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (pp. A4.1-A4.51). New Haven, US: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University.
Olsen, P. E., Whiteside, J. H., & Huber, P. (2003). Causes and consequences of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction as seen from the Hartford basin. In B. J. Skinner, & J. T. Cheney (Eds.), Guidebook for Field Trips in the Five College Region, 95th New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (pp. B5.1-B5.41). Northampton, US: Department of Geology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Reports

Erwin, D., et al, . U., & Whiteside, J. (2012). Transitions: The Changing Earth-Life System - Critical Information for Society from the Deep Past. Arlington, US: National Science Foundation.
Whiteside, J. H., & Van Keuren, M. A. (2009). Multiproxy environmental characterization of lake level cycles in the Green River Formation of Utah and Colorado. (Utah Geological Survey Open File Report; No. 544). Salt Lake City, US: Utah Geological Survey.
Olsen, P. E., Whiteside, J. H., & Smoot, J. (2006). Lacustrine cyclicity and the Triassic-Jurassic transition. Geological Society of America, Field Guide for the 2006 Meeting. Philadelphia, US: Geological Society of America/The Mosasaur.
Olsen, P. E., Whiteside, J. H., & Fedak, T. (2005). The Triassic-Jurassic faunal and floral transition in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia (Field Trip A7: The Triassic-Jurassic faunal and floral transition in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia. Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Canadian Society of Soil Sciences, 2005 Joint Meeting, Halifax, NS). Halifax, CA: Atlantic Geoscience Society.
Olsen, P. E., Whiteside, J. H., & Fedak, T. (2005). Triassic-Jurassic faunal and floral transition in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia. North American Paleontological Congress Field Guidebook. Halifax, CA: North American Congress.
Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., & Whiteside, J. H. (2004). The Newark Basin, the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, and the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Field Trip for the 8th Annual DOSECC Workshop on Continental Scientific Drilling, May 22-25, 2004. Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey. Salt Lake City, US: DOSECC.
Sagan, D., & Whiteside, J. H. (2001). Design explained: The Goldilocks paradox. Swift.

Lecturer for SOES 3011 / 6007: Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles

Module co-ordinator SOES 3015: Palaeoclimate Change

Dr Jessica H Whiteside
Student Office, Room 166/09 University of Southampton Waterfront Campus National Oceanography Centre European Way Southampton SO14 3ZH

Room Number: NOCS/164/01

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