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Dept. of Geography, Geology and Anthropology
Indiana State University
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Terre Haute, IN 47809

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Jennifer C. Latimer

Assistant Professor of Geology                                     Specialties: Sediment Geochemistry, Paleoceanography, Environmental Geochemistry                                                     Ph.D., Indiana University                                                              Joined the department in 2005

 Email: jlatimer@isugw.indstate.edu

Courses Taught

GEOL 160 - Intro to Earth and Sky
GEOL 361 - Oceanography
GEOL 381 - Geochemistry
GEOL 488/588 - Computer Methods in Geology
 

Recent Publications

          Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., Hendy, I.L., Newkirk, D. R., in review. Opal intrinsic phosphorus: implications for the marine P mass balance.

Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., Murray, R.W., in prep. Deep ocean support for the glacial shelf-nutrient hypothesis.

Latimer, J.C. and Filippelli, G.M., in prep. Export production across the polar front zone in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean.

Filippelli, G.M., Laidlaw, M., Latimer, J., Raftis, R., 2005. Lead poisoning and medical geology: an unfinished story. GSA Today, 15: 4-11.

Filippelli, G.M., Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A., Vazquez, A., Utrilla, R., Perez-Folgado, M., Latimer, J.C., 2003. A sediment-nutrient-oxygen feedback responsible for productivity variations in late Miocene sapropel sequences of the western Mediterranean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 190: 335-348.

Latimer, J.C. and Filippelli, G.M, 2002. Eocene to Miocene terrigenous inputs and paleoproductivity: Geochemical evidence from ODP Leg 177, Site 1090. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 182: 151-164.

Latimer, J.C. and Filippelli, G.M., 2001. Terrigenous input and paleoproductivity in the Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography, 16(6): 627-643. Editor's Choice, Science, 295, January 11, 2002. Science News, 161, January 5, 2002. News Notes, Geotimes, March 2002.
 

Recent Abstracts

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2004. Nutrient dynamics in the glacial Southern Ocean. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. INVITED.

Flores, J., Filippelli, G.M., Sierro, F.J., Latimer, J.C., Murray, R.W., 2004. Exploring the Carbonate Production/Dissolution Paradox in the Mid-Bruhnes of the Southern Ocean Using Coupled Records of Biological and Chemical Dynamics. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, INVITED.

Fillippelli, G.M., Laidlaw, M, Raftis, R., Latimer, J.C., 2004. Lead poisoning and medical geology: an unfinished story. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Abstracts with Programs.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., Hendy, I., Gleason, J.D., 2004. Paleo-Fe inputs and terrigenous sedimentation in the Southern Ocean. 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz, France, p. 93.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2003. Testing the phosphorus paleoproductivity proxy across a productivity and sedimentology gradient in the Southern Ocean. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (Abs): F900.

Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., Murray, R.W., 2003. Support from the Southern Ocean and equatorial Pacific for the glacial shelf-nutrient hypothesis. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (Abs.): F887.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2003. Paleo-Fe inputs to the Southern Ocean on glacial/interglacial time scales. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Abstracts with Programs, 35.

Newkirk, D.R., Filippelli, G., Souch, C., Latimer, J., Horn, S., 2003. An aridification event beginning about 1600 AD in Central America: Evidence from a lake sediment core in Laguna Zoncho, Costa Rica and effects on agriculture and population. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Abstracts with Programs, 35.

Raftis, R.A., Filippelli, G., Tedesco, L., Atekwana, E., Latimer, J., Shrake, L., Pascual, D.L., 2003. Nutrient cycling and water quality in an urban drinking water reservoir. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Abstracts with Programs, 35.

Shrake, L.K., Tedesco, L. P., Atekwana, E.A., Hall, B.E., Latimer, J., Filippelli, G., 2003. Watershed contribution to three central Indiana reservoirs: Characterization of suspended sediment and dissolved loads. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Abstracts with Programs, 35.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2003. Glacial/interglacial productivity and the phosphorus mass balance in the Southern Ocean. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, NV, Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, 16: 239.

Newkirk, D.R., Filippelli, G., Souch, C., Latimer, J., Horn, S., 2003. The impact of climate and pre-Columbian agriculture on soil and nutrients in southwestern Costa Rica, XVI INQUA Congress, Reno, NV, Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, 16: 180.

Filippelli, G., Latimer, J., 2003. A dirty glacial ocean: terrigenous loading, upwelled iron, and primary productivity in the Southern Ocean. EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, Geophysical Abstracts Volume 5, 04470. INVITED

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2002. Plio-Pleistocene sediment geochemistry on the South Tasman Rise: Changes in export production or a dirty story from the deep. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.): F932.

Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., Kanfoush, S., Hodell, D., Billups, K., Flores, J., Sierro, F., 2002. Nutrient Cycling and Carbon Burial in the Southern Ocean During the Oligocene and Early Miocene. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.): F932.

Fillippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., Laidlaw, M, Raftis, R., 2002. Diffuse lead and children’s blood lead levels in Indianapolis. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Abstracts with Programs, 34 (7).

Flores, J.A., Sierro, F.J., Filippelli, G., Latimer, J.C., 2002. Sea-surface dynamics and calcium carbonate production during MIS9 to 13 in the Southern Ocean; relationship between geochemistry and the calcareous nannofossil record. 9th Internatinal Nannoplankton Association Conference, Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 24: 103.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2002. Phosphorus geochemistry and export production across the polar front zone in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66 (15A): 434.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2001. Glacial/interglacial productivity in the Subantarctic Southern Ocean: ODP site 1089 vs. Site 1171. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.). INVITED

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., Flores, J.A., Sierro, F.J., 2001. Productivity variations across the Polar Front Zone in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.).

Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., 2001. The Upwelled Iron Hypothesis in the Southern Ocean. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.).

Flores, J., Sierro, F.J., Filippelli, G., Latimer, J., 2001. Calcium carbonate production and sea surface dynamics during MIS 9 to 13 in the Southern Ocean: Evidence from calcareous nannofossils and sediment geochemistry. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.).

Sierro, F., Filippelli, G., Flores, J., Latimer, J., Vasquez, A., Utrilla, R., 2001. Nutrient Storage and release in sediments drives Miocene Mediterranean sapropel formation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs.).

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., Flores, J.A., Sierro, F.J., 2001. Productivity variations across the Polar Front Zone in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. International Conference on Paleoceanography VII Meeting, Sapporo, Japan, p. 140.

Latimer, J.C., Filippelli, G.M., 2000. Eocene to Miocene terrigenous inputs, paleoproductivity, and the onset of the ACC: Geochemical evidence from ODP Leg 177, Site 1090. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs).

Flores, J.A., Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., Sierro, F.J., 2000. Assessing paleoproductivity proxies in the Southern Ocean. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos (abs).

Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., 2000. Terrigenous input and paleoproductivity in the Southern Ocean. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, Abstracts with Programs 32 (7): A-218.

Filippelli, G.M., Laidlaw, M., Atkins, R.R., Latimer, J.C., 2000. Lead in surface soils of Marion County, Indiana. Geological Society of American North-Central Section Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, Abstracts with Programs, 32 (4): 13.