Research Paleobiologist and Curator of Paleobotany, Co-Head ETE Program
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
NHB MRC 121
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Email: wings at si.edu
Research Interests
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/curator_cvs/wing.html
Current Research Projects
Climatic and floral change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a deep-time analog for anthropogenic global warming
Recent Publications
Wing, S. L. 2001. Hot times in the Bighorn Basin. Natural History 110:48-54.
Royer, D. L., Wing, S. L., Beerling, D. J., Jolley, D. W., Koch, P. L., Hickey, L. J., and Berner, R. A. 2001. Paleobotanical evidence for near present day levels of atmospheric CO2 during part of the Tertiary. Science 292:2310-2313.
Wing, S. L. and Harrington, G. J. 2001. Floral response to rapid warming at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary and implications for concurrent faunal change. Paleobiology 27:539-562.
Wing, S. L., Harrington, G. J., Bowen, G. J., and Koch, P. L. 2003. Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. in, Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and E. Thomas (eds.) Causes and Consequences of early Paleogene Warm Climates Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 369:425-440.
Wilf, P. D., Cúneo, N. R., Johnson, K. R., Hicks, J. F., Wing, S. L., and Obradovich, J. D. 2003. High plant diversity in Eocene South America: evidence from Patagonia. Science 300: 122-125.
Barnosky, Anthony D., Koch, Paul L., Feranec, Robert S., Wing, S. L., and Shabel, Alan B. 2004. Assessing the causes of Late Pleistocene extinctions on the continents. Science 306: 70-75.
Fricke, H., and Wing, S.L. 2004. Oxygen isotope and paleobotanical estimates of temperature and ?18O – latitudinal gradients over North America during the early Eocene. American Journal of Science 304:612-635.
Wing, S.L. 2004. Mass extinctions in plant evolution. Pp. 61-98, in, Taylor, P.D. (ed.) Extinctions in the History of Life. Cambridge University Press.
Wing, S.L., Harrington, G.J., Smith, F., Bloch, J.I., and Boyer, D.M. 2005. Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science 310: 993-996.
Bowen, G.J., Bralower, T.J., Delaney, M.L., Dickens, G.R., Kelly, D.C., Koch, P.L, Kump, L.R., Meng, J., Sloan, L.C., Thomas, E., Wing, S.L., and Zachos, J.C. 2006. Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming. Eos 87 (17): 165-169
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