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Member Since 1999
Petra Dekens
Executive Director, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Member, Climate Communication Prize Committee
Professional Experience
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Executive Director
2023 - Present
San Francisco State University
Professor
2018 - 2023
Education
University of California Santa Cruz
Doctorate
Publications
Application of Individual Foraminifera Mg/Ca and δ18O Analyses for Paleoceanographic Reconstructions...
Marine and terrestrial material deposited together in Integrated Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 354 cores in the Bay of Bengal offer the opport...
October 17, 2019
The evolution of the equatorial thermocline and the early Pliocene El Padre mean state
The tropical Pacific thermocline strength, depth, and tilt are critical to tropical mean state and variability. During the early Pliocene (~3.5 to ...
June 18, 2015
AGU Abstracts
Improving Equity, Inclusion, and a Sense of Belonging for Students, Faculty, and Staff at a Marine Research Station Through Strategic Planning and a Shared Leadership Model
AGU LANDING ACADEMY: BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN GEOSCIENCE THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT POSTER
education | 10 december 2024
Petra Dekens
The faculty and students at marine laboratories across the United States are not as racially or ethnically diverse as the population in their region, ...
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Creating a more inclusive university community by developing processes to navigate bias related harms that do not rise to the level of formal complaints
ADVANCES AND PROGRESS TOWARD A MORE INCLUSIVE, DIVERSE, EQUITABLE, AND ACCESSIBLE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY II ORAL
education | 14 december 2023
Petra Dekens, Kai Burrus, Laura Mamo, Carmen Domin...
The Promoting Equity and Relationships amongst Colleagues (PERC) program at San Francisco State University aims to promote healthy relationships betwe...
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Sea Surface Temperatures in the Bay of Bengal through the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transition
UNDERSTANDING THE TERRESTRIAL HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE TO ATMOSPHERIC CO<SUB>2</SUB>: LESSONS FROM THE CENOZOIC AND INSIGHTS INTO THE FUTURE II POSTERS
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 10 december 2020
Kara Cowan, Petra Dekens
The Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean is highly influenced by the Indian Summer Monsoon and the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP). This region receives mo...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2025
Member
Climate Communication Prize Committee
2024 - 2024
Chair
Climate Communication Prize Committee
2021 - 2022
Immediate Past President
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Executive Committee
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