Dr. Natalie Umling
Dr. Natalie Umling
 
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Professional History

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Education

2013-2017        Ph.D., University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Geological Sciences (Advisor: Dr. Robert Thunell).

2009-2013        B.S., University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Geology and Oceanography, Minor in Mathematics (Advisor: Dr. Amy Wagner).

 

Positions Held

2022-Present    Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2022-Present    Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2018-2022    Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2017-2018        Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic institution, Woods Hole, MA 

 
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Research

The aim of my research is to put modern climate change in the lens of the past by studying recent abrupt climate change and abrupt changes during the transition between glacial and interglacial periods. Specifically, how has ocean circulation and chemistry changed from pre-industrial conditions and during the more rapid climate events that overprint the glacial-interglacial periods of the Pleistocene. By documenting the oceanic changes that have occurred during both modern and past rapid climate events, my research provides clues to the oceanic role in both driving and responding to a changing climate

 

Publications

Umling, N. E., B. Saad, E. Sikes, N. F. Goodkin (2021). Proximity to undersaturation and the influences on G. bulloides area-density in southern Indian Ocean marine sediments. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology doi: 10.1029/2021PA004249 pdf

Williams, T. J., E. E. Martin, E. Sikes, A. Starr, N. E. Umling, R. Glaubke (2021). Neodymium isotope evidence for coupled Southern Ocean circulation and Antarctic climate throughout the last 118,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 260 doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106915

Osborne, E.B., N. E. Umling, M. Bizimis, W. Buckley, A. Sadekov, E. Tappa, B. Marshall-Kesser, L. R. Sautter, R. C. Thunell. A sediment trap evaluation of B/Ca as a marine carbonate system proxy in asymbiotic and non-dinoflagellate hosting planktonic foraminifera. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35. doi: 10.1029/2019PA003682 pdf

Lacerra, M., D. Lund, G. Gebbie, D. W. Oppo, J. Yu, A. Schmittner, N. E. Umling. Less remineralized carbon in the intermediate depth South Atlantic during Heinrich Stadial 1. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34. doi: 10.1029/2018PA003537

Umling, N. E., D. W. Oppo, P. Chen, J. Yu, Z. Liu, M. Yan, G. Gebbie, D. C. Lund, K. R. Pietro, Z.D. Jin, K.-F. Huang, K. B. Costa, F. A. L. Toledo. South Atlantic subsurface warming and forcing mechanisms during deglaciation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34. doi: 10.1029/2019PA003558 pdf

Hoogakker, B. A. A., Z. Lu, N. E. Umling, L. Jones, X. Zhou, R. Rickaby, R. C. Thunell, O. Cartapanis, E. Galbraith. Tandem proxy evidence demonstrates glacial expansion of oxygen depleted seawater in the eastern tropical Pacific. Nature 562, 410-413 doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0589-x (2018)

Umling, N. E., Thunell, R. C., & Bizimiz, M. (2018). Deepwater expansion and enhanced remineralization in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial maximum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33. doi: 10.1029/2017PA003221 

Umling, N. E. & Thunell, R. C. (2018). Mid-depth respired carbon storage and oxygenation of the eastern equatorial Pacific over the last 25,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 189, 43-56. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.002

Umling, N. E. & Thunell, R. C (2017). Synchronous deglacial thermocline and deep-water ventilation in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Nature Communications 8, 14203. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14203 

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