معرفی
Dr. Oana Dumitru is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida. She specializes in carbonate geochemistry and paleoclimatology, focusing on reconstructing past sea levels and climate changes using fossil corals and cave deposits. Her geochronological expertise includes U-Th and U-Pb dating techniques to establish precise timelines for geological materials.
Education: Ph.D. Geology (University of South Florida, 2019).
Research interests include sea-level reconstruction, paleoclimatology, and geochronology. Her work emphasizes leveraging fossil corals and speleothems as climate proxies to understand glacial-interglacial cycles. Recent studies focus on the Last Interglacial period, investigating ice sheet contributions to sea-level changes in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados.
Publications highlight advancements in U-series dating accuracy, collaborative intercalibration efforts, and probabilistic sea-level modeling. Notable contributions include the 2020 Quaternary Young Investigator Award.
Research activities integrate fieldwork in tropical and Mediterranean regions with laboratory geochemical analyses. Current projects address long-term coastal uplift history and anthropogenic impacts revealed in cave guano chemistry.
