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Dr. Tim Patterson, Professor of Earth Sciences, Carleton University,
Paleoclimatology specialization
Professor Patterson employs sediments, microfossils and geochemistry in his research of past and present climate change as indicated in lake and oceanic sediments. He has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed scientific research journals, receiving a 2002-2003 Carleton University Research Achievement Award in recognition of his work. He has just been awarded a prestigious three-year International Exchange Fellowship at Queen's University of Belfast.
Dr. Patterson is Canadian leader of the UNESCO International Geological Correlation Program Project IGCP 495 "Quaternary Land-Ocean interactions" and has been Principal Investigator of a Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences project studying high-resolution Holocene climate records from anoxic fjords and coast lakes in British Columbia.
Other areas of interest include the use of microfossils and other proxies to determine sea level change rates, the use of various freshwater proxies as paleoclimatic and paleolimnological indicators, and the determination of whether the methods of non-linear dynamics are applicable in the study of evolutionary phenomena.
Professor Patterson received a B.Sc. in Biology (1980) and a B.A. in Geology (1983) from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1986.
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