Nancy Buening
Department of Geology
6000 J Street
California State University
Sacramento, CA 95819

Nancy Buening is a lecturer in the Geology Department of California State University Sacramento. She received her B.S from Sonoma State University in California and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. Her research interests are in brachiopods as tools for climate reconstruction and in the process of biomineralization. Her research has taken her to New Zealand where fossil brachiopods are abundant and well preserved. Their shells were ideal for isotopic analysis and reconstruction of ancient climates. During a post-doc at UCD, Nancy examined brachiopod shells with TEM and conferred with Dr. Rudy Wenk at UC Berkeley. In addition to teaching, Nancy is a paleontological consultant with Jones & Stokes in Sacramento.