Thesis Topic:
Understanding ENSO variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool utilizing coral geochemistry

UTIG Advisor: Terrence Quinn

Previous Education:
BA, Geology and Biology, Carleton College, MN, 2007
Thesis: Pyrodinium bahamense var. bahamense cysts as a dinoflagellate population and depositional environment proxy in Puerto Mosquito, Vieques, Puerto Rico

Awards:
- "Outstanding Student Paper Award" from the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section of AGU for the 2010 Fall meeting in December for "ENSO Variability during the Little Ice Age from the Perspective of a Long Coral Record from the Western Pacific Warm Pool"
- Ewing-Worzel Fellowship, Spring 2008

Presentations:
Hereid, K A; Quinn, T M; Taylor, F W; Shen, C C; Banner, J L. ENSO variability during the Little Ice Age from the perspective of a long coral record from the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Eos Trans. AGU 91(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP43B-1680.

Quinn, T M; Taylor, F W; Partin, J W; Maupin, C R; Hereid, K A; Gorman, M K. 2010. Tales from the South (and West) Pacific in the Common Era: A Climate Proxy Perspective (Invited). Eos Trans. AGU 91(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP51B-01.

Hereid, K A; Quinn, T M; Taylor, F W; Banner, J. Interannual to multi-decadal scale climate variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool recorded by the geochemistry of 16th-17th century corals from Papua New Guinea. Eos Trans. AGU 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP11G-04.

Bachtel, S.; Phelps, R.; Hereid, K.; El-Azzi, J.; Dunn, E.M.; Helbert, D.; Cardona, P.; Caber, R.; Singh, K.; and Kiel, B. 2009. Modern isolated carbonate platform dimensional database collected from publicly available image catalogs. AAPG Annual Meeting, June 7-10, Denver, Colorado.

Hereid, K A, Quinn, T M, Taylor, F W, Sea Surface Temperature From the Western Pacific Warm Pool (Misima Island, Papua New Guinea) Using the Geochemistry of Modern and Pre-industrial Corals. Eos Trans. AGU 89, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP23C-1507