Biography
Bärbel Hönisch grew up in Germany and studied Biology and Paleoceanography at the Universities of Bielefeld and Bremen; she received her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences in 2002. After holding academic positions at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, CUNY Queens College, and Bremen University, she joined our faculty in 2007. Hönisch is interested in the effect of global carbon cycle perturbations on climate and the oceans, in particular past variations of seawater acidity and its relation to atmospheric CO2. Her research includes culture experiments with living marine calcifiers to validate proxies for past environmental conditions and reconstructions of past ocean changes.