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Miss Lorna Kearns BSc, MRes

Postgraduate research student (SPITFIRE)

Miss Lorna Kearns is a postgraduate research student within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

BSc Geological Sciences with Industrial Placement, University of Leeds (2012-2016)
BSc Mapping project of the turbidite systems of the Spanish Pyrenees.

MRes Marine Geology and Geophysics, University of Southampton (2016-2017)
For my MRes project I used morphological, geochemical (Mg/Ca) and statistical techniques to assess differences between the morphotypes of Globigerinoides ruber – a palaeoceanographically important planktic foraminifera.

Supervisor: Dr Thomas Ezard

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Research interests

My main research interests involve using interdisciplinary techniques to assess inter and intraspecific differences in planktonic foraminifera during the descent into the icehouse.

Research project : Inferring early warning signals of ecosystem collapse at the end of the Eocene greenhouse

Supervisors:

Thomas Ezard (UoS)
Steve Bohaty (UoS)
Sandra Nogué (Geography, UoS)
Kirsty Edgar (University of Birmingham)

Research group

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

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Articles

Kearns, L. , Bohaty, S. , Edgar, K. M. , & Ezard, T. (2022). Small but mighty: how overlooked small species maintain community structure through middle Eocene climate change . Paleobiology . https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2022.24
Kearns, L. E. , Bohaty, S. M. , Edgar, K. M. , Nogué, S. , & Ezard, T. H. G. (2021). Searching for function: reconstructing adaptive niche changes using geochemical and morphological data in planktonic foraminifera: planktonic foraminifera functional traits . Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 9 , [679722]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.679722

Thesis

Kearns, L. (2022). The correspondence of morphological and geochemical trait dynamics in shifting plankton communities . University of Southampton.

Miss Lorna Kearns
Ocean and Earth Science
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
University of Southampton Waterfront Campus
European Way
Southampton SO14 3ZH
UK

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