Welcome to The Corals, Caves & Chronologies Lab at UF—a team driven by curiosity about Earth’s past. We explore records preserved in fossil corals and cave deposits to better understand long-term changes in climate and sea level.
Faculty
Dr. Oana Dumitru
Assistant Professor
Graduate Students
Emalee Ott – MsC student (2025- present)
Thesis: Reconstruction of paleo-sea levels from U-series ages of fossil coral reefs
Kaleb McLaughlin – MsC student (2025- present)
Thesis: Past climate changes reconstructions using speleothems from the Yucatán Peninsula
Undergraduate Researchers
Annemarie Mueller – Last interglacial sea level derived from fossil corals in Hawaii (Honor Thesis)
Laurent Puyana – Oolites as sea-level indicators during the last interglacial (Honor Thesis)
Ren Leihy – Assessing the preservation potential of fossil corals by species