Geology & Planetary Science
505 SRCC
4107 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-624-8775

mrosenme@pitt.edu

Degree

PhD in Geological Sciences, 2003
University of Florida
Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas

• Paleoenvironmental methods of climate change
• Human-environment interaction
• Limnologic processes and paleolimnology

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Courses Offered

• GEOL 0030 Global Climate and the Environment
  Examination of both natural and human-induced global environmental change and the complex interactions of Earth systems. Offered every fall.
• GEOL 1309 Physical, Chemical, and Geological Limnology
  Examination of the physical, chemical, and geological aspects of inland waters. For upper level undergraduates. Offered alternate years.
• GEOL 2309 Physical, Chemical, and Geological Limnology
  Examination of the physical, chemical, and geological aspects of inland waters. Graduate level. Offered alternate years, simultaneous with 1309.
• GEOL 3909 Quaternary Stratigraphy: Recent Advances In Paleoclimatology
  Introduction to the multi-disciplinary science of paleoclimatology; recent advances in climate change research. Graduate level. Offered occasionally.

Representative Publications

Rosenmeier, M.F., Brenner, M., Kenney, W.F., Whitmore, T.J. and Taylor, C.M. (2004) Recent eutrophication in the southern basin of Lake Petin Itza, Guatemala: human impact on a large tropical lake. Hydrobiologia 511, 161-172.

Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., Hodell, D.A., Curtis, J.H. Anselmetti, F.S. and Ariztegui, D. (2003) Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. In Gsmez-Pompa, A. Fedick, S. and Jiminez-Osornio, J. (eds.), Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. Haworth Press.

Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., Hodell, D.A. and Curtis, J.H. (2002) Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands: long-term perspectives on climate, environment, and humans. Ancient Mesoamerica 13, 141-157.

Rosenmeier, M.F., Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H. and Guilderson. T.P. (2002) A 4000 year lacustrine record of environmental change in the southern Maya lowlands, Petin, Guatemala. Quaternary Research 57, 183-190.

Rosenmeier, M.F., Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Martin, J.B., Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D. and Guilderson. T.P. (2002) Influence of vegetation change on watershed hydrology: implications for paleoclimatic interpretation of lacustrine δ18O records. Journal of Paleolimnology 27, 117-131.

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