In January 2017, Dr. Amanda M. Oehlert joined Bahamas Marine EcoCentre as a post-doctoral research scientist funded by the Agouron Institute. Amanda will be investigating the rare earth element geochemistry of stromatolites from the Bahamas and Hamelin Pool, Western Australia. Dr. Oehlert will be collaborating with Professors Pamela Reid and Ali Pourmand at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences to determine whether the concentrations of rare earth elements in stromatolites provide information about how they were formed, or if they tell a story about seawater geochemistry through time. Amanda is looking forward to spending time at the Darby Island Research Station, where she will be collecting water, sediment, and microbial carbonate samples for her project. Previously, Dr. Oehlert spent two years working at BP, mapping deep water siliciclastic depositional environments and building regional depositional models for the Gulf of Mexico. During her PhD at the University of Miami, Amanda worked on a project that aimed to understand how records of global carbon cycling could be affected by depositional environment and diagenesis. Dr. Oehlert worked with a variety of carbonate samples, including recent periplatform sediments from the Great Bahama Bank, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Great Australian Bight, as well as 350 million year old carbonate ramp deposits from the Madison Limestone in the Western United States.
BME welcomes Amanda and looks forward to working with you!
