James Browning

Room WL-237B Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-2044
jvb@rutgers.edu

Education

• 1996 Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; Thesis: Eocene Sequences and Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies on the New Jersey Coastal Plain: Implications for Global Sea-Level Change - K.G. Miller, advisor.
  
• 1983 M.S. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Thesis: Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Jalama Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Western Santa Ynez Mountains, California - D.J. Bottjer, advisor.
  
• 1980 B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Introductory Geology I: Planet Earth; Introductory Geology II: Historical

Research Interests

• Sequence stratigraphy of the New Jersey Coastal Plain
• History of sea level
• Benthic foraminiferal biofacies on the Atlantic Margin
  

Recent Publications

• Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., Sugarman, P.J., Kominz, M.A., McLaughlin, P.P., and Kulpecz, A.A., 2008, 100 Myr record of sequences, sedimentary facies and sea-level change from Ocean Drilling Program onshore coreholes, U.S. Mid-Atlantic coastal plain: Basin Research, v. 20, p. 227-248, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00360.
• Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., McLaughlin, P.P., Edwards, L.E., Powars, D.S., Kulpecz, A.A., Wade, B.S., Feigenson, M.D., and Wright, J.D., in press, Integrated sequence stratigraphy of the post-impact sediments from the Eyreville coreholes, Chesapeake Bay impact structure inner basin: Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, GSA Special Paper.
• Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., McLaughlin, P.P., Kominz, M.A., Sugarman, P.J., Monteverde, D., Feigenson, M.D., and Hernàndez, J.C., 2006, Quantification of the effects of eustasy, subsidence, and sediment supply on Miocene sequences, Mid-Atlantic margin of the United States: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 567-588.
• Kulpecz, A.A., Miller, K.G., Sr., Browning, J.V., Edwards, L.E., Powars, D.S., McLaughlin, P.P., Harris, A.D., and Feigenson, M.D., in press, Post-impact deposition in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure: variations in eustasy, compaction, sediment supply, and passive-aggressive tectonism: Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, GSA Special Paper.
• Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Aubry, M.-P., Wade, B.S., Katz, M.E., Kulpecz, A.A., Wright, J.D., 2008, Eocene-Oligocene global climate and sea-level changes: St. Stephens Quarry, Alabama: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 34-53 doi: 10.1130/B26105.1.
• Miller, K.G., Wright, J.D., Katz, M.E., Browning, J.V., Cramer, B.S., Wade, B.S., and Mizintseva, S.F., 2008, A view of Antarctic ice-sheet evolution from sea-level and deep-sea isotope changes during the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic, in Cooper, A.K., Barrett, P.J., Stagg, H., Storey, B., Stump, E., Wise, W., and the 10th ISAES editorial team, eds., Antarctica: A keystone in a changing world: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Washington, DC, The National Academies Press, p. 55-70.
• Katz, M.E., Miller, K.G., Wright, J.D., Wade, B.S., Browning, J.V., Cramer, B.S., and Rosenthal, Y., 2008, Stepwise transition from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse: Nature Geoscience, v. 1, p. 329-334, doi:10.1038/ngeo179.

Jim and Ken Miller examining the K/P boundary from the

Meirs farm corehole.