Chelsea Korpanty

Chelsea Korpanty is a researcher at the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the University of Bremen. Her work focuses on paleoecology, analyzing marine invertebrate assemblages from temperate seagrass habitats to deep-sea coral ecosystems. She specializes in taxonomy and ecological modeling of Pleistocene solitary cold-water corals from Australia's Northwest Shelf, leveraging data from IODP Expedition 356 sediment cores.

Her research contributes to understanding deep-sea biodiversity patterns and climate reconstruction through fossil records. MARUM's infrastructure - including core repositories, sediment traps, and ocean drilling programs - supports her analytical workflows. She collaborates with international teams on projects bridging geological timescales with modern conservation strategies.