Liz Nesbitt
  Associate Professor
  Office: Burke Museum 008
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-543-5949
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: lnesbitt @ u.washington.edu
  Homepage: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/paleontology/people_nesbitt.php

  Research Groups: Paleontology

Areas of Interest:
Paleontology and Stratigraphy

Current Research Interests:
Curator of Invertebrate and Micro-paleontology, UW Burke Museum Paleontology: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/paleontology/index.php

Full Biography.

Selected Publications:

All in peer-review journals

Nesbitt, E.A., Carroll, N.P., Martin, R.A., and Greiff, J. 2010. Reassessment of the Zemorrian foraminiferal Stage and Juanian molluscan Stage north of the Olympic Mountains, Washington State and Vancouver Island.  Newsletters on Stratigraphy 43 (3): 21-37.

Martin, R.A., Nesbitt, E.A., and Campbell, K.A. 2010. The effects of anaerobic methane oxidation on benthic foraminiferal assemblages and stable isotopes on the Hikurangi Margin of eastern New Zealand.  Marine Geology 272: 270-284. 

Martin, R.A., Nesbitt, E.A., and Campbell, K.A.  2007. Carbon stable isotopic composition of benthic foraminifera from Pliocene cold methane seeps Cascadia accretionary margin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 246:260-277.

Nesbitt, E.A. and Campbell, K.A. 2006.The paleoenvironmental significance of Psilonichnus. Palaios, 21:187-196. 

Campbell, K.A., Nesbitt, E.A. and Bourgeois, J.  2006. Signature of storms, oceanic floods and forearc tectonism in marine shelf strata of the Quinault Formation (Pliocene) Washington, U.S.A.  Sedimentology, 53:945-969. 

Nesbitt, E.A.  2005. A novel trophic relationship between cassid gastropods and mysticete whale carcasses. Lethaia, 38:17-25.