Tim Patterson
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| Born | St. Stephen, New Brunswick |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Fields | Micropaleontology, Paleoclimatology, Paleolimnology, Paleoceanography, Environmental Earth Sciences |
| Institutions | University of Southern California, Carleton University |
| Alma mater | Dalhousie University (BA, BSc), University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Thesis | (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich |
| Other academic advisors | David B. Scott, Franco S. Medioli, Alfred R. Loeblich Jr, Charlotte A. Brunner |
| Doctoral students | Andrée Blais, Eduard G. Reinhardt, Arun Kumar, Audrey Dallimore, Andrew P. Dalby, Alice S. Chang, Robert E.A. Boudreau, Jennifer M. Galloway, Lameed Babalola, Hafida El Bilali, Lisa A. Neville, Andrew L. Macumber, Braden R.B. Gregory, Nawaf A. Nasser. |
| Known for | Climate Change and Environmental Earth Sciences |
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R. Timothy Patterson Ph.D. is a professor of geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian researcher with specialization in paleolimnology, paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. He founded and is co-Director of the Carleton Climate and Environmental Research Group (CCERG) He has previously served as Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre and as Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Patterson has made more than 300 scholarly contributions, including over 180 peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters. Patterson is also an international lecturer and media commentator, primarily contributing to increasing public awareness of environmental issues. He co-founded and served as Executive Editor (1997-2000) of Palaeontologia Electronica (PE). Palaeontologia Electronica covers all aspects of palaeontology, and is the world's longest running open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal. He also previously served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Foraminiferal Research (1995-2008), and the journal Micropaleontology (1990-1997).
Patterson works on a wide array of research subjects, most of which are based on analysis of marine and lake sediments to reconstruct past environments. He uses many techniques to understand the history of marine and lake environments from the perspective of: 1) the influence of climate variability on aquatic ecosystem services (AES); 2) the impact of degradation resulting from human activities on AES, and 3) the degree to which remediation and mitigation efforts are successful in improving AES. He has developed technologies that permit extraction of very high-resolution paleoenvironmental records, and uses time series analysis techniques to recognize trends and cycles in the climate record. Other research focuses on assessing the impact of nutrient loading and road salt contamination on lake environments. He is also engaged in research on tracking the influence of climate change on metal transport in northern lakes and has partnered with indigenous peoples of the Northwest Territories to develop research tools to calibrate western scientific reconstructions of past climate against the oral histories that are provided by First Nations communities.
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