Dr. Thomas Stemann

Lecturer

thomas.stemann@uwimona.edu.jm

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Research

Research Projects:

Overview of coral biodiversity in Jamaica from the Late Eocene through Miocene.

Coral Community turnover during the Oligocene/Miocene transition in the Caribbean Paleocene corals of Colombia.

Biostratigraphy of Jamaican Cretaceous solitary corals (in conjunction with Dr. S.Mitchell)

Quantitative assessment of coral communities and reef growth during the late Pleistocene

Graduate Students:

Matthew Rahamut- Project Title "Biofacies, Taphonomy and Accretion of the Late Pleistocene Coral reefs at Select Sites in Jamaica".

Grants:

National Geographic Society Grant 2008 to Present: Regional Mass extinction in the Caribbean Late Neogene

National Geographic Society Grant #7278-02 . 2004-2006: Pliocene reefs of Jamaica : implications for biodiversity and faunal turnover

National Geographic Society Grant . July/August 2004: Eocene vertebrate fauna from Seven Rivers, St. James, Jamaica

Publications

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Teaching

Courses Taught:

GEOL1102: Earth Processes and Earth History

GEOL1103: Minerals and Mineral Deposits

GEOL1104: Geoogical Maps and Environmental Geology

GEOL2201: Palaeontology and the History of Life

GEOL3102: Capstone- Caribbean Geology