Staff profiles
Erica TownendProject Manager
Qualifications
- BSc, Geology
- BSc, Geology & Geography
- PhD, Palaeobotany and Palynology
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Paleoceanography
- Geology: Quaternary studies
- Geology: Stratigraphy
- Paleontology: Dating
- Paleontology: Early Paleogene Biostratigraphy
- Geology: Paleoenvironmental Studies
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Latest Cretaceous and Paleocene biostratigraphy and paleogeography of northern Zealandia, IODP Site U1509, New Caledonia Trough, southwest Pacific, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 67(1): p. 20-44. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2022.2090386. p. 20-44
- A 100 million year composite pollen record from New Zealand shows maximum angiosperm abundance delayed until Eocene, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 566: paper 110207. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110207. paper 110207
- Terrestrial methane cycle perturbations during the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Geology 49(5): p. 520-524. DOI: 10.1130/G48110.1. p. 520-524
- Climatic and environmental changes across the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum at mid-Waipara River, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand, Earth-Science Reviews 200: article 102961. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102961. article 102961
- An interdisciplinary approach to reservoir characterisation : an example from the early to middle Eocene Kaimiro Formation, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, Marine and Petroleum Geology 86: p. 111-139. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.05.018. p. 111-139
- Constraining Early to Middle Eocene climate evolution of the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 433: p. 380-392. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.010. p. 380-392
- A revised Paleocene (Teurian) dinoflagellate cyst zonation from eastern New Zealand, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 202: p. 47-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.12.004. p. 47-79
- An expanded modern dinoflagellate cyst dataset for the Southwest Pacific and Southern Hemisphere with environmental associations, Marine Micropaleontology 101: p. 33-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.04.004. p. 33-48
- A New Zealand record of sea level rise and environmental change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 305(1-4): p. 185-200. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.001. p. 185-200
- Distribution of organic-walled marine and terrestrial palynomorphs in surface sediments, offshore eastern New Zealand, Marine Geology 270(1-4): p. 235-256. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.11.004. p. 235-256
- Tropical sea temperatures in the high-latitude South Pacific during the Eocene, Geology 37(2): p. 99-102. DOI: 10.1130/G25200A.1. p. 99-102
- Eustatic variations during the Paleocene-Eocene greenhouse world, Paleoceanography 23(4): PA4216. DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001615. PA4216
- Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary, Nature 450(7173): p. 1218-1221. DOI: 10.1038/nature06400. p. 1218-1221
- Environmental change across the Paleocene-Eocene transition from eastern New Zealand : a marine palynological approach, Marine Micropaleontology 56(3/4): p. 138-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2005.05.002. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 3398 p. 138-160
- The Apectodinium acme and terrestrial discharge during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum : new palynological, geochemical and calcareous nannoplankton observations at Tawanui, New Zealand, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 194(4): p. 387-403. DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00334-1. p. 387-403
- Terrestrial vegetation record across the initial Eocene thermal maximum at the Tawanui marine section, New Zealand, Special papers / Geological Society of America 369: p. 351-363. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2787 p. 351-363
- Late Paleocene-Early Eocene dinoflagellate cyst records from the Tethys : further observations on the global distribution of Apectodinium, Special papers / Geological Society of America 369: p. 113-131. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2786 p. 113-131
- Global dinoflagellate event associated with the late Paleocene thermal maximum, Geology 29(4): p. 315-318. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2312 p. 315-318