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Ellen Thomas (born 1950, Hengelo) is a Dutch-born environmental scientist and geologist at Wesleyan University.
Academic career and research
Thomas attended the University of Utrecht (BSc, MSc and PhD). Thomas studies environmental and climate change over geologic timescales, specializing in the study of benthic foraminifera. Thomas was the first scientist to discover a mass extinction in benthic foraminifera close to the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, now recognized as a result of the climate event known as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Thomas is the current editor-in-chief of the journal Paleoceanography, published by the American Geophysical Union.
Awards and honors
American Geophysical Union - 2012 Maurice Ewing Medal