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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Brooks B. Ellwood is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields including Paleontology, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Molecular Biology.

Their recent publications cover a variety of topics, particularly focusing on paleoclimate, geology, and archaeology. Notable papers include "The LSU campus mounds, with construction beginning at ∼11,000 BP, are the oldest known extant man-made structures in the Americas" (2022) published in the American Journal of Science. Other works coauthored with collaborators include papers on sedimentology and paleomagnetic studies published in venues such as the Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments and the Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Frequent publication venues reflect an engagement with geological and paleontological communities, including:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
  • American Journal of Science
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • VIETNAM JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Collaborations with other researchers have been a prominent aspect of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Guangsheng Zhuang
  • James R. Thomka
  • Hoa Phuong Ta
  • Peter Königshof
  • Thang Chien Nguyen

The main thematic topics addressed in Ellwood's research comprise:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Ellwood's scientific contributions have been recognized through fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Spatial variation in sediment fluxes, redox conditions, and productivity in the Permian–Triassic Panthalassic Ocean

    Thomas J. Algeo;Kiyoko Kuwahara;Hiroyoshi Sano;Steven Bates

  • Magnetic anisotropy in the Trenton Limestone: Results of a new technique, anisotropy of anhysteretic susceptibility

    Chad McCabe;Michael Jackson;Brooks B. Ellwood

  • Magnetosusceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy method applied to marine rocks: Detrital input versus carbonate productivity

    Brooks B. Ellwood;Rex E. Crick;Ahmed El Hassani;Stephen L. Benoist

  • Magnetic susceptibility as a proxy for rainfall: Worldwide data from tropical and temperate climate

    William L. Balsam;Brooks B. Ellwood;Junfeng Ji;Earle R. Williams

  • Flow and emplacement direction determined for selected basaltic bodies using magnetic susceptibility anisotropy measurements

    Brooks B. Ellwood

  • Quaternary Climates, Environments and Magnetism: Magnetic monitoring of air- land- and water-pollution

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  • The Permian–Triassic boundary at Nhi Tao, Vietnam: Evidence for recurrent influx of sulfidic watermasses to a shallow-marine carbonate platform

    Thomas J. Algeo;Brooks Ellwood;Thi Kim Thoa Nguyen;Harry Rowe

  • The development of antarctic glaciation and the Neogene paleoenvironment of the Maurice Ewing Bank

    Paul F Ciesielski;Michael T Ledbetter;Brooks B Ellwood

  • Estimates of flow direction for calc-alkaline welded tuffs and paleomagnetic data reliability from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility measurements: Central San Juan Mountains, southwest Colorado

    Brooks B. Ellwood

  • Stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and magnetic fabric of the Toba Tuffs: Constraints on the sources and eruptive styles

    Michael D. Knight;George P. L. Walker;Brooks B. Ellwood;Jimmy F. Diehl

  • An integrated biostratigraphy (conodonts and foraminifers) and chronostratigraphy (paleomagnetic reversals, magnetic susceptibility, elemental chemistry, carbon isotopes and geochronology) for the Permian–Upper Triassic strata of Guandao section, Nanpanjiang Basin, south China

    Daniel J. Lehrmann;Leanne M. Stepchinski;Demir Altiner;Michael J. Orchard

  • Antarctic bottom water fluctuations in the Vema Channel: Effects of velocity changes on particle alignment and size

    Brooks B. Ellwood;Michael T. Ledbetter

  • MagnetoSusceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) of the Eifelian-Givetian GSSP and associated boundary sequences in north Africa and Europe

    Rex E. Crick;Brooks B. Ellwood;Ahmed El Hassani;Raimund Feist

  • Sequencing events across the Permian–Triassic boundary, Guryul Ravine (Kashmir, India)

    Thomas J. Algeo;Robyn Hannigan;Harold D Rowe;Michael Brookfield

  • The Magneto-Susceptibility Event and Cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) Method Used in Geological Correlation of Devonian Rocks from Anti-Atlas Morocco

    Brooks B. Ellwood;Rex E. Crick;Ahmed El Hassani

  • Evidence for a diachronous Late Permian marine crisis from the Canadian Arctic region

    Thomas Algeo;Charles M. Henderson;Brooks Ellwood;Harry Rowe

  • Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility of the Přı́dolian–Lochkovian (Silurian–Devonian) GSSP (Klonk, Czech Republic) and a coeval sequence in Anti-Atlas Morocco

    R.E Crick;B.B Ellwood;J Hladil;A El Hassani

  • Volcanic perturbations of the marine environment in South China preceding the latest Permian mass extinction and their biotic effects

    J. Shen;T. J. Algeo;L. Zhou;Q. Feng

  • Symposia on magnetic fabrics: introductory comments

    Brooks B. Ellwood;František Hrouda;Jean-Jacques Wagner

  • Impact of differential tectonic subsidence on isolated carbonate-platform evolution: Triassic of the Nanpanjiang Basin, south China

    Daniel J. Lehrmann;Pei Donghong;Paul Enos;Marcello Minzoni

  • Paleoecología y comportamiento humano durante el Pleistoceno Superior en la comarca de Liébana: La secuencia de la Cueva de El Esquilleu (Occidente de Cantabria, España)

    J. Baena Preysler;Elena Carrión;Blanca Ruiz Zapata;Brooks Ellwood

  • Anomalous magnetic properties in rocks containing the mineral siderite: Paleomagnetic implications

    Brooks B. Ellwood;William Balsam;Burke Burkart;Gary J. Long

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
William Balsam
William Balsam Dartmouth College
Daniel J. Lehrmann
Daniel J. Lehrmann Trinity University
J. Barry Maynard
J. Barry Maynard University of Cincinnati
Carlton E. Brett
Carlton E. Brett University of Cincinnati
Jonathan L. Payne
Jonathan L. Payne Stanford University
Michael J. Orchard
Michael J. Orchard Geological Survey of Canada
Gary J. Long
Gary J. Long Missouri University of Science and Technology
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
František Hrouda
František Hrouda Charles University

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