Awards and Honors
- 2008-2009 Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer
- 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, Texas A&M Association of Former Students
Active Funding
- NSF: Carboniferous chemostratigraphy: Do epicontinental seas reflect global ocean conditions? 1/08-12/10 $290,801
- NSF: Did deep waters form at high latitudes during the mid- to Late Cretaceous Greenhouse? 9/06-8/09 $155,585
- NSF: Collaborative Research: The History and Timescale of Paleoceanographic Change in the Arctic Ocean (with Ted Moore and Jamie Gleason, University of Michigan) 3/06 – 2/09. $51,180 (Texas A&M award)
Other Projects:
- The role of intermediate water source in organic matter preservation along the California margin.
- Cyclic carbonate dissolution in early Paleogene deep-sea sediments - evidence of orbitally controlled changes in greenhouse thermohaline circulation?
Publications
- Thomas, D.J., Lyle, M., Moore, T.C.,Jr., and Rea, D.K., 2008, Paleogene Deep-water Mass Composition of the Tropical Pacific and Implications for Thermohaline Circulation in a Greenhouse World, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q02002, doi:10.1029/2007GC001748. PDF
- Thomas, D.J. and Via, R.K., 2007, Neogene Evolution of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation: Perspective from Walvis Ridge, southeastern Atlantic Ocean, Paleoceanography, 22, PA2212, doi:10.1029/2006PA001297. PDF
- *Via, R.K. and Thomas, D.J., 2006, Evolution of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation – Timing of the onset of Deep-water Production in the North Atlantic, Geology, 34, 441-444. PDF (also see the Science Highlight)
- Rea, D.K., Lyle, M.W., Liberty, L.M., Hovan, S.A., Bolyn, M.P., Gleason, J.D., Hendy, I.L., Latimer, J.C., Murphy, B.M., Owen, R.M., Paul, C.F., Rea, T.H.C., Stancin, A.M., Thomas, D.J., 2006, Broad region of no sediment in the southwest Pacific basin, Geology, 34, 10, 873-876.
- Thomas, D.J., 2005, Reconstructing ancient deep-sea circulation patterns using the Nd isotopic composition of fossil fish debris, in Isotopic and Elemental Tracers of Late Cenozoic Climate Change , GSA Spec. Pub., v. 395, D. Surge and G. Mora, eds., p. 1-12. PDF
- Thomas, D.J., Bralower, T.J., 2005 , The timing of North Atlantic Igneous Province volcanism relative to the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum: Implications for the use of metal concentrations for Large Igneous Province activity. Marine Geology , 217, 233-254. PDF
- Frank, T.D., Thomas, D.J., Leckie, R.M., Arthur, M.A., Bown, P.R., Jones, K., and Lees, J.A., 2005, The Maastrichtian record from a depth transect on Shatsky Rise (northwest Pacific): a tropical perspective on global ecological and oceanographic changes. Paleoceanography, 20, PA1008, 1-14. PDF
- Thomas, D.J., 2004, Evidence for Production of North Pacific Deep Waters During the early Cenozoic Greenhouse. Nature, 430, 65-68. PDF (also see the News & Views about the paper)
- Thomas, D.J., Bralower, T.J., and Jones, C.E., 2003, Neodymium Isotopic Reconstruction of Late Paleocene - Early Eocene Thermohaline Circulation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett ., 209, 309-322. PDF
- Thomas, D.J., Zachos, J.C., Bralower, T.J., Thomas, E., and Bohaty, S., 2002, Warming the Fuel for the Fire: Evidence for the thermal dissociation of methane hydrate during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Geology , 30: 1067-1070. PDF **690 single specimen Data file**
- Thomas, D.J., Bralower, T.J., and Zachos, J.C., 1999, New evidence for subtropical warming during the late Paleocene thermal maximum: Stable isotopes from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 527, Walvis Ridge. Paleoceanography , 14: 561-570. PDF
- Bralower, T.J., Thomas, D.J., Thomas, E., and Zachos, J.C., 1998. Reply. Geology , 26: 671.
- Bralower, T.J., Thomas, D.J., Zachos, J.C., Hirschmann, M.M., Rohl, U., Sigurdsson, H., Thomas E., and Whitney, D.L., 1997, High-resolution records of late Paleocene thermal maximum and circum-Caribbean volcanism: Is there a causal link? Geology , 25: 963-966. PDF
- Herbert, T.D., Schuffert, J.D., Thomas, D., Lange, C., Weinheimer, A., Peleo-Alampay, A., and Herguera, J.-C., 1999, A core-top calibration of alkenone unsaturation in California Margin sediments. Paleoceanography, 13: 263-271.
*indicates student primary authorship
