Michael Sandstrom

My current research involves using paleoclimate and spatial data alongside geochemistry and geochronology to reconstruct past sea level and ice volume changes that took place millions of years ago. My expertise includes high-precision strontium isotope geochronology of shallow water carbonates, uranium-thorium series dating of fossil coral, and coastal geomorphological field mapping using LiDAR, dGPS and 3D photogrammetry.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University 2014–2020Master of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University 2016–2018 Master of Arts in Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University 2014–2016 Bachelor of Arts in Earth Science, Vassar College 2007–2012

Honors & Awards

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2014 – 2019)

Sandstrom, M.R., O’Leary, M., Barham, M., Cai, Y., Rasbury, T., Wooton, K., Raymo, M. (2020). Age constraints on surface deformation recorded by fossil shorelines at Cape Range, Western Australia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, online August 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1130/B35564.1

Rovere, A., Pappalardo, M., Richiano, S., Aguirre, M., Sandstrom, M.R., Hearty, P.J., Austermann, J., Castellanos, I., Raymo, M.E. (2020) Higher than present global mean sea level recorded by an Early Pliocene intertidal unit in Patagonia (Argentina). Commun Earth Environ 1, 68. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00067-6.

Hearty, P. J., Rovere, A., Sandstrom, M. R., O'Leary, M. J., Roberts, D., & Raymo, M. E. (2020). Pliocene‐Pleistocene stratigraphy and sea‐level estimates, Republic of South Africa with implications for a 400 ppmv CO2 world. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, e2019PA003835. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003835.

Sandstrom, M. R., Skrivanek, A. and Shakun, J. (2018). Dynamic ice sheet and sea level response to past climate change, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO098171. Published on 07 May 2018.

Rovere, A., Casella, E., Harris, D., Lorscheid, T., Nandasena, N., Dyer, B., Sandstrom, M., Stocci, P., D’Andrea, W., Raymo, M. (2017). Giant boulders and Last Interglacial storm intensity in the North Atlantic. PNAS. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1712433114

Rovere, A., Casella, E., Harris, D., Lorscheid, T., Nandasena, N., Dyer, B., Sandstrom, M., Stocci, P., D’Andrea, W., Raymo, M. (2018).  Reply to Hearty and Tormey: Use the scientific method to test geologic hypotheses, because rocks do not whisper. PNAS. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1800534115

Dassie, E., DeLong, K., Kilbourne, H., Williams, B., Abram, N., Brenner, L., Brahmi, C., Cobb, K., Correge, T., Dissard, D., Emile-Geay, J., Evangelista, H., Evens, M., Farmer, J., Felis, T., Gagan, M., Gillikin, D., Goodkin, N., Khodri, M., Lavagnino, A.C., LaVigne, M., Lazareth, C., Linsley, B., Lough, J., McGregor, H., Nurhati, I., Gilman, O., Perrin, L., Raymo, M., Rosenheim, B., Sandstrom, M., Schone, B., Sifeddine, A., Stevenson, S., Thompson, D., Waite, A., Wanamaker, A., Wu, H. (2017). Saving our marine archives. EOS, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO068159.