Irina Delusina
Ph.D., Tallinn Institute of Geology, Estonia, formerly Academy of Science of USSR (1989)
Assistant Project Scientist

High-resolution records of climate change from ocean and lake environments as determined by palynological analyses. Reconstruction of vegetational history of late-glacial environment and its paleoclimatic implications. Evidence for the response of plant communities  to climatic oscillations and analysis of environmental parameters responsible for vegetational alteration. Current research projects encompass  California and the Caribbean region, including the palynological study of vegetation evolution and optimal conditions for the formation of peat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and marine sediments of the Cariaco Basin of Caribbean Sea as a source of information for paleoclimate reconstruction in a Neotropical region during late-glacial/Holocene transition.

delusina@geology.ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-1861