Ann
Holbourn is a researcher at the University of Kiel in Germany and Assistant
Director of the IMAGES Program (International Marine Global Change Study). She
received her BA in Geology and Oceanography from the Open University and her MSc
and PhD from London University, where she worked on the early history of the
Indian Ocean during the Cretaceous. Her main research interests center on
Cretaceous and Neogene marine micropaleontology and paleoceanography, on biotic
events during periods of extreme climate and on the use of benthic foraminifers
as proxies for oxygenation and productivity. Her main geographical areas for
research are West Africa, the northern and southern margin of Australia,
southeast Asia and the southeastern Pacific margins.