Achievement

Trainee Alvin Bonilla presented a poster, "Paleoceanographic Conditions During the Cretaceous Greenhouse World in the Caribbean Region: Implications to Future Climate Change," at the University of Kansas Annual Research Competition. He hypothesized that variations in Caribbean reef builders during the Cretaceous were controlled by periods of superheated and hypersaline conditions that formed episodically in the central paleotropics, and found data that suggests that greenhouse oceanographic parameters would be a major stressing factor for reef building corals in modern tropical oceans.