Dr Fabienne Marret-davies
Associate professor
Environmental Sciences
University du Qubec Rimouski
Canada
Biography
I am a micropalaeontologist by training, with research interest in the field of Quaternary palaeoceanography and palaeoecology. I study marine sediments from around the world to interpret past environmental changes, based on vegetation tracers (pollen grains) and sea-surface conditions (dinoflagellate cysts). I am particularly interested in the causes of abrupt climate changes in the past, from the tropics to the poles. I am currently investigating the history of the reconnection of the Black Sea with the global ocean about 9300 years ago, as it was debated that a catastrophic flooding occurred at that time and would have triggered the dispersal of early farmers. I am also interested in the climate variability of monsoonal regions (Africa, Thailand), for the last 10,000 years and more.
Research Interest
I am particularly interested on understanding the environmental causes that impact on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, from recent to older periods. Climate change on the long term is pretty much understood, but abrupt variability on a millennial or centennial remains unexplained, and that is one of my research interest.
Publications
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Zenina, M. A., Ivanova, E. V., Bradley, L. R., Murdmaa, I. O., Schornikov, E. I., & Marret, F. (2017). Origin, migration pathways, and paleoenvironmental significance of Holocene ostracod records from the northeastern Black Sea shelf. QUATERNARY RESEARCH, 87(1), 49-65. doi:10.1017/qua.2016.2
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Adojoh, O. C. (2017, March 21). Controls on Palaeovegetation and Delta Evolution: Implications from the Coastal Margin, Niger Delta, Gulf of Guinea.
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Mudie, P. J., Marret, F., Mertens, K. N., Shumilovskikh, L., & Leroy, S. A. G. (2017). Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distributions in the Black Sea Corridor: From Aegean to Aral Seas, including Marmara, Black, Azov and Caspian Seas. Marine Micropaleontology. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.05.004
