Michael Rampino Associate Professor of Biology Ph.D. 1978 (geological sciences), Columbia; B.A. 1968 (geology), Hunter College. Email:

Areas of Research/Interest: Earth and atmospheric sciences; global biogeochemical cycles; planetary science.

External Affiliations: Consultant, NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York; Editorial Board, Journal of Coastal Research; Chair (1989-1990) of the Geological Sciences Section at the New York Academy of Sciences; representative of the International Climate Commission, International Geosphere-Biosphere Project, and NOAA, Joint US-USSR Working 8 on the Environment; Co-Editor of the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series (Kluwer Academic Press) and Editor-in-Chief of the new On-Line Encyclopedia of Earth Science; member of American Geophysical Union, AAAS, Geological Society of America, New York Academy of Sciences, National Association of Geology Teachers, International Association of Volcanology, Society for Sedimentary Geology, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life

Fellowships/Honors: American Philosophical Society Research Award, 1988; listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Science and Technology, and Who's Who in the World

Publications

• Is Bedout an impact crater? Take 2.
  Science
  Renne PR, Melosh HJ, Farley KA, Reimold WU, Koeberl C, Rampino MR, Kelly SP, Ivanov BA
  
  
• A unified theory of impact crises and mass extinctions: quantitative tests.
  Ann N Y Acad Sci
  Rampino MR, Haggerty BM, Pagano TC
  
  
• Late Permian Extinctions.
  Science
  Rampino MR
  
  
• The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
  Visscher H, Brinkhuis H, Dilcher DL, Elsik WC, Eshet Y, Looy CV, Rampino MR, Traverse A
  
  
• Mass extinctions and periodicity.
  Science
  Rampino MR, Haggerty BM
  
  
• Bottleneck in human evolution and the Toba eruption.
  Science
  Rampino MR, Self S
  
  
• The mid-Cretaceous super plume, carbon dioxide, and global warming.
  Geophys Res Lett
  Caldeira K, Rampino MR
  
  
• Continental-pelagic carbonate partitioning and the global carbonate-silicate cycle.
  Geology
  Caldeira K
  
  
• Carbon dioxide emissions from Deccan volcanism and a K/T boundary greenhouse effect.
  Geophys Res Lett
  Caldeira K, Rampino MR
  
  
• Flood Basalt Volcanism During the Past 250 Million Years.
  Science
  Rampino MR, Stothers RB
  
  
• Geological Rhythms and Cometary Impacts.
  Science
  Rampino MR, Stothers RB
  
  
• Historic Volcanism, European Dry Fogs, and Greenland Acid Precipitation, 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1500.
  Science
  Stothers RB, Rampino MR
  
  
• Clay Mineralogy of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Clay.
  Science
  Rampino MR, Reynolds RC
  
  
• Can Rapid Climatic Change Cause Volcanic Eruptions?
  Science
  Rampino MR, Self S, Fairbridge RW