Professor
of Marine Science Department of Marine Science 1020 Balch Blvd. Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-9904 phone: 228-688-3402 fax: 228-688-1121 charlotte.brunner@usm.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Oceanography, University of Rhode Island,
1978
B.A.
Geology, University of Rhode Island, 1970
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Dr.
Brunner is a paleoceanographer, who uses fossil
planktonic and benthic foraminifers and other
proxies of the ocean environment to infer the
environmental history of the oceans over the
past 5 million years. She has participated in
research cruises all over the world, including
a series of dives on board the DSRV Alvin,
and has taken part in five Ocean Drilling Program
(ODP) on board the JOIDES Resolution.
She is presently studying present and past hypoxic
events in the Mississippi using foraminifera
as a proxy of oxygenation. She is also
investigating the coastal marshes of Mississippi
and Louisiana over the last 6 thousand years
determining the relationship between environmental
changes in the marshes and occupation patterns
of the indigenous peoples that relied on the
marshes for food.
COURSES
Marine
Sedimentary Environments (MAR 620)
Principal
marine sedimentary environments characterized
by constituents, fabric, facies, depositional
processes, and major geomorphic features.
Survey
of the biology, distribution, deposition, evolution,
paleoceanography and biostratigraphy of benthic
and planktonic foraminifers, radiolarians, calcareous
nannofossils, and marine diatoms.
Foraminiferida(MAR 684 -Special Topics)
Survey
of foraminifers based on the classification
system of Loeblich and Tappan (1987)and more
recent systems. Detailed review of morphology,
biology, and genetics of foraminifers. Detailed
review of suborders and selected superfamilies,
families, and genera important in clastic and
carbonate environments.
Paleoceanography(MAR 684 -Special Topics)
Methods
and approaches used in the study of history
of the oceans, detailed exploration of selected
critical events in ocean history during the
Cenozoic and Mesozoic Periods.
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
Brunner,
C. A., and Biscaye, P. E., 2003. Production
and resuspension of planktonic foraminifers
at the shelf break of the southern Middle Atlantic
Bight. Deep-Sea Research, Part I, 50:247-268.
Zuffa,
G.G., Normark, W.R., Serra, F. and Brunner,
C.A., 2000. Turbidite Megabeds in an
Oceanic Rift Valley Recording Jökulhlaups
of Late Pleistocene Glacial Lakes of the Western
U.S. J. Geology, 108: 253-274.
Brunner,
C. A., Normark, W.R., Zuffa, G.G. and
Serra, F., 1999. Deep-sea sedimentary record
of the late Wisconsin cataclysmic floods from
the Columbia River. Geology, 27(5):
463-466.
Brunner,
C. A., and Maniscalco, R., 1998. Late
Pliocene and Quaternary Paleoceanography of
the Canary Basin, In: Weaver, P., Schmincke,
H.-U., Firth, J., (Eds.), Proceedings of
the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results,
v. 157: 73-82.
Brunner,
C. A., Sblendorio-Levy, J., Maniscalco,
R., Howe, R., Fuller, M., Herr, B., Goldstrand,
P., and Bogaard, P., 1998. Biostratigraphic
and magnetostratigraphic evaluation of ODP Sites
953, 954, 955, and 956, Canary Islands. In:
Weaver, P., Schmincke, H.-U., Firth, J., (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program,
Scientific Results, v. 157: 97-114.
Schneider,
J.-L., Brunner, C. A., and
Kuttner, S., 1998, Epiclastic sedimentation
during the Late Miocene - Early Pliocene volcanic
hiatus of Gran Canaria: Evidence from Sites
953 and 954. In: Weaver, P., Schmincke, H.-U.,
Firth, J., (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean
Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v.
157: 293-313.
Maniscalco,
R., and Brunner, C. A., 1998.
Neogene planktonic foraminifer biostratigraphy
in the Canary Island region. In: Weaver, P.,
Schmincke, H.-U., Firth, J., (Eds.), Proceedings
of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results,
v. 157: 115-124.
Brunner, C. A., and Biscaye, P. E.,
1997, Storm-driven fluxes and seasonal succession
of foraminifers delivered to the upper slope,
Mid-Atlantic Bight. Continental Shelf Research,
17(5):491-508.
Brunner,
C. A., 1994. Planktonic foraminiferal
biostratigraphy and paleoceanography of late
Quaternary turbidite sequences at Holes 856A,
857A, and 857C, Leg 139. In: Mottl, M. J., Davis,
E., Fisher, A. T., and Slack, J. F. (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program,
Scientific Results, v. 139:39-58.
