Miriam Katz

Assistant Research Professor
Room 233B Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-3445
mimikatz@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

• B.S. St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y. Geology, 1981
• M.S. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Geology, 1983
• Ph.D. Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J. Geology, 2001

Teaching

• Introductory Geology
• Benthic Foraminifera for Geochemists
• Studies in Micropaleontology 

Thesis Topics

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Benthic Foraminifera of the Pleistocene Champlain Sea, St. Lawrence Lowlands, C.J. Mehrtens and J.M. Ericson, advisors.
• Master's Thesis: Benthic Foraminiferal Assessment of Bottom Water Conditions Associated with Late Miocene and Early Pliocene Mediterranean Anoxic Events, R.C. Thunell, advisor.
• PhD Dissertation: Uncorking the Bottle: Causes and Effects of the Latest Paleocene Methane Hydrate Release, K.G. Miller, advisor.

Professional Societies

• American Geophysical Union
• Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
• Geological Society of America
• North American Micropaleontology Section of SEPM

Synergistic Activities

• Associate Editor, Journal of Foraminiferal Research
• North American Micropaleontology Section of SEPM (Board of Directors, 2002-2005)
• North American Micropaleontology Section of SEPM, President (2003)
• SEPM Student Mentor Program 2004-2005
• CHRONOS geochemical cycles database working group (NSF program)
• CHRONOS paleobiology database working group (NSF program)
• Paleobiology Database, micropaleontology working group (NSF program)

Recent Publications

• 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. published online: 13 April 2008; doi:10.1038/ngeo179.
• Falkowski, P.G., Katz, M.E., Milligan, A., Fennel, K., Cramer, B.S., Aubry, M.P., Berner, R.A., Novacek, M., and Zapole, W.M., 2005. The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals. Science 309:2202-2204. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Wright, J.D., Miller, K.G., Cramer, B.S., Fennel, K., and Falkowski, P.G., 2005. Biological overprint of the geological carbon cycle. Marine Geology. 217:323-338. [PDF]
• Finkel, Z., Katz, M.E., Schofield, O., Wright, J.D., and Falkowski, P.G., 2005. Climatically-driven evolutionary change in the size of diatoms over the Cenozoic. PNAS 102(25):8927-8932. [PDF]
• Grzebyk, D., Katz, M.E., Knoll, A., Quigg, A., Raven, J.A., Schofield, O., Taylor, M., and Falkowski, P.G., 2004. Response to Comment on “The evolutionary history of eukaryotic phytoplankton.” Science, 306:2101c. [PDF]
• van de Schootbrugge, B., Bailey, T.R., Rosenthal, Y., Katz, M.E., Wright, J.D., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Miller, K.G., and Falkowski, P.G., 2005. Early Jurassic climate change and the radiation of organic-walled phytoplankton in the Tethys Ocean. Paleobiology, 31(1):73-97. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Finkel, Z., Grzebyk, D., Knoll, A.H., and P.G. Falkowski, 2004. Evolutionary trajectories and biogeochemical impacts of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton. 2004 Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, vol. 35, p. 523-556. [PDF]
• Falkowski, P.G., Katz, M.E., Knoll, A., Quigg, A., Raven, J.A., Schofield, O., and Taylor, M., 2004. The evolutionary history of eukaryotic phytoplankton. Science 305(5682):354-360. [PDF]
• Falkowski, P.G., Schofield, O., Katz, M.E., van de Schootbrugge, B., and Knoll, A., 2004. Why is the land green and the ocean red? Thierstein, H. and Young, J. (Eds.), Coccolithophores – from Molecular Processes to Global Impact. Elsevier (Amsterdam), 429-453. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Tjalsma, R.C., and Miller, K.G., 2003. Oligocene bathyal to abyssal benthic foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Micropaleontology, vol. 49, supp. #2, 45 pp.
• Katz, M.E., Katz, D.R., Wright, J.D., Miller, K.G., Pak, D.K., Shackleton, N.J., and Thomas, E., 2003. Early Cenozoic benthic foraminiferal isotopes: species reliability and interspecies correction factors. Paleoceanography 18(2), 1024, doi:10.1029/2002PA000798. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Miller, K.G., and Mountain, G.S., 2003. Biofacies and lithofacies evidence for paleoenvironmental interpretations of late Neogene sequences on the New Jersey continental shelf (ODP Leg 174A). In: H. C. Olson and M. Leckie (Eds.), Micropaleontological Proxies for Sea-Level Change, SEPM Spec. Publ. 75, 131-146. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Cramer, B., Mountain, G.S., Katz, S., and Miller, K.G., 2001. Uncorking the bottle: what triggered the Paleocene/Eocene methane release? Paleoceanography 16(6):549-562. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Pak, D.K., and Dickens, G.R., 2000. The LPTM gas hydrate dissociation hypothesis: new evidence from the western North Atlantic. Schmitz, B., Sundquist, B., and Andreasson, F.P. (Eds.), Early Paleogene warm climates and biosphere dynamics; short papers and extended abstracts, GFF, 122 (1):84-85.
• Katz, M.E., 2000. Miocene benthic foraminiferal abundances and dissolution indices, Site 1006, Straits of Florida. Eberli, G.P., Swart, P.K., Malone, M.J., (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 166: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 129-136. [PDF]
• Katz, M.E., Pak, D.K., Dickens, G.R., and Miller, K.G., 1999. The source and fate of massive carbon input during the Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum. Science, 286(5444):1531-1533. [PDF]
• Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Browning, J.V., Kominz, M., Sugarman, P.J., Christie-Blick, N., Katz, M.E., Wright, J.D., 1998. Cenozoic global sea level, sequences, and the New Jersey transect; results from coastal plain and continental slope drilling. Reviews of Geophysics, 36(4):569-601.
• Aubry, M.-P., Snyder, S.W., van Fossen, M.C., Urbat, M., Katz, M.E., Miller, K.G., and McHugh, C.M.G., 1996. Stratigraphy of the Eocene chalks recovered from the New Jersey margin, ODP Leg 150: Synthesis. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 150: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
• McHugh, C.M.G., Snyder, S.W., Deconinck, J.-F., Saito, Y., Aubry, M.-P., and Katz, M.E., 1996. Upper Eocene tektites of the New Jersey continental margin: ODP Site 904. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 150: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
• McHugh, C., Katz, M.E., and Mountain, G.S. 1996. Oligocene to Recent mass-transport deposits of the New Jersey continental margin and their correlation to sequence boundaries. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 150: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
• Katz, M.E., and Miller, K.G., 1996. Eocene to Miocene Oceanographic and Provenance Changes in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Benthic Foraminifers of the New Jersey Margin. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., Blum, P., Poag, C.W., and Twichell, D.C., (eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 150: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 65-95.
• Katz, M.E., and Miller, K.G., 1993. Latest Oligocene to Pliocene benthic foraminiferal biofacies of northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Micropal. 39(4):367-403.
• Katz, M.E., and Miller, K.G., 1993. Neogene subsidence along the Northeast Australian margin: benthic foraminiferal evidence. In: Davies, P.J., McKenzie, J.A., Julson, A., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 133: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 75-92.
• Katz, M.E., and Miller, K.G., 1993. Miocene-Pliocene bathyal benthic foraminifera and the uplift of Buff Bay, Jamaica. GSA Mem. 182:219-254.
  Miller, K.G., Katz, M.E., and Berggren, W.A., 1992. Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminifera: A tale of three turnovers. Studies in Benthic Foraminifera, BENTHOS '90, Sendai, p. 67-75, Tokai Univ. Press.
• Katz, M.E., and Miller, K.G., 1991. Early Paleogene benthic foraminiferal assemblage and stable isotope composition in the Southern Ocean, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 114. In: Ciesielski, P., Kristoferson, I., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 114: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 481-512.
• Miller, K.G., Janacek, T.R., Katz, M.E., and Keil, D., 1987. Abyssal circulation and benthic foraminiferal changes near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Paleoceanography, 2(6):741-761.
• Miller, K.G., and Katz, M.E., 1987. Oligocene-Miocene benthic foraminiferal and abyssal circulation changes in the North Atlantic. Micropaleontology, 33(2):97-149.
• Katz, M.E., and Miller, K.G., 1987. Neogene benthic foraminiferal biofacies of the New Jersey Transect. In: Poag, C.W., Watts, A., et al., Init. Rep. Deep Sea Drilling Proj., Leg 95, p. 299-312.
• Miller, K.G., and Katz, M.E., 1987. Eocene benthic foraminiferal biofacies of the New Jersey Transect. In: Poag, C.W., Watts, A., et al., Init. Rep. Deep Sea Drilling Proj., Leg 95, p. 267-298.
• Katz, M.E., and Thunell, R.C., 1984. Benthic foraminiferal biofacies associated with middle Miocene to early Pliocene oxygen deficient conditions in the Eastern Mediterranean. Jour. Foram. Res., 14(3):187-202.