Dr Sarah Greene PhD

Dr Sarah Greene

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Sarah is a palaeoclimatologist, geobiologist, and Earth system modeller studying the biogeochemical cycling of carbon between the atmosphere, the ocean, and marine sediments. Particular research interests include rapid carbon cycle perturbations (Mesozoic mass extinctions, Palaeogene hyperthermals), protracted multi-mullion year carbon cycle trends (co-evolution of life and the carbon cycle), and how biogeochemical cycling within marine sediments influences palaeoclimatological and palaeoenvironmental records.

ORCID 0000-0002-3025-9043

Qualifications

  • B.S. Geological Sciences, 2005 (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA)
  • B.A. German, 2005 (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA)
  • Ph.D Geological Sciences, 2011 (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Teaching

Dr Sarah Greene teaches earth system science, geochemistry, palaeoclimates, sedimentology, oceanography, and field geology. She is passionate about making teaching practices as inclusive as possible, authoring several best practice guides about field teaching that have been adopted by many universities nationally and internationally, and has twice been shortlisted for the University of Birmingham's Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi) Inclusive Educator Award (2020, 2021). Outside of the University of Birmingham, Sarah has taught on multiple international summer courses for PhD students, including the International Geobiology Course and the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimates.

Postgraduate supervision

Paleoclimates, carbon cycle, mass extinctions, Earth system modelling, biogeochemical cycles, large igneous provinces, sedimentology, geobiology, carbonate chemistry, machine learning

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Ibarra, Y, Marenco, P, Centlivre, J, Hedlund, B, Rademacher, L, Greene, S, Bottjer, D & Corsetti, F 2024, 'A Biofilm Channel Origin for Vermiform Microstructure in Carbonate Microbialites', Geobiology, vol. 22, no. 5, e12623. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12623

Rogers, SL, Giles, S, Dowey, N, Greene, SE, Bhatia, R, Van Landeghem, K & King, C 2024, '“you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of Geology From the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Analysis From an Online Survey', Earth Science, Systems and Society, vol. 4, 10078. https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2024.10078

Dunne, E, Farnsworth, A, Benson, RBJ, Godoy, P, Greene, S, Valdes, PJ, Lunt, DJ & Butler, R 2023, 'Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs', Current Biology, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.064

De Lira Mota, M, Dunkley Jones, T, Sulaiman, N, Edgar, K, Yamaguchi, T, Leng, MJ, Adloff, M, Greene, S, Norris, R, Warren, B, Duffy, G, Farrant, J, Murayama, M, Hall, J & Bendle, J 2023, 'Multi-proxy evidence for sea level fall at the onset of the Eocene-Oligocene transition', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 4748. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39806-6

Wang, Y, Lu, J, Yang, M, Yager, J, Greene, S, Sun, R, Mu, X, Bian, X, Zhang, P, Shao, L & Hilton, J 2023, 'Volcanism and wildfire associated with deep-time deglaciation during the Artinskian (early Permian)  ', Global and Planetary Change, vol. 225, 104126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104126

Zhang, P, Lu, J, Yang, M, Bond, D, Greene, S, Liu, L, Zhang, Y, Wang, Y, Wang, Z, Shan, L, Shao, L & Hilton, J 2022, 'Volcanically-induced environmental and floral changes across the Triassic-Jurassic (T-J) transition', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, 853404. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.853404

Dunne, E, Farnsworth, A, Greene, S, Lunt, DJ & Butler, R 2021, 'Climatic drivers of latitudinal variation in Late Triassic tetrapod diversity', Palaeontology, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12514

Ashley, KE, Crosta, X, Etourneau, J, Campagne, P, Gilchrist, H, Ibraheem, U, Greene, SE, Schmidt, S, Eley, Y, Massé, G & Bendle, J 2021, 'Exploring the use of compound-specific carbon isotopes as a palaeoproductivity proxy off the coast of Adélie Land, East Antarctica', Biogeosciences, vol. 18, no. 19, pp. 5555-5571. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5555-2021

Wang, C, Bendle, JA, Yang, H, Yang, Y, Hardman, A, Yamoah, A, Thorpe, A, Mandel, I, Greene, SE, Huang, J & Xie, S 2021, 'Global calibration of novel 3-hydroxy fatty acid based temperature and pH proxies', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 302, pp. 101-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.03.010

Adloff, M, Ridgwell, A, Monteiro, FM, Parkinson, I, Dickson, AJ, Pogge von Strandmann, P, Fantle, M & Greene, S 2021, 'Inclusion of a suite of weathering tracers in the cGENIE Earth system model – muffin release v.0.9.23', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 4187–4223. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4187-2021

Yager, J, West, AJ, Thibodeau, A, Corsetti, F, Rigo, M, Berelson, W, Bottjer, D, Greene, S, Ibarra, Y, Jadoul, F, Ritterbush, K, Rollins, N, Rosas, S, Di Stefano, P, Sulca, D, Todaro, S, Wynn, P, Zimmerman, L & Bergquist, B 2021, 'Mercury contents and isotope ratios from diverse depositional environments across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary: towards a more robust mercury proxy for large igneous province magmatism', Earth Science Reviews, vol. 223, 103775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103775

Lu, J, Zhang, P, Dal Corso, J, Yang, M, Wignall, P, Greene, S, Shao, L, Lyu, D & Hilton, J 2021, 'Volcanically driven lacustrine ecosystem changes during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic)', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 40, e2109895118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109895118

Preprint

Rogers, S, Giles, S, Dowey, N, Greene, S, Bhatia, R, Landeghem, KV & King, C 2023 '“you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of geology from the UK: a qualitative analysis from an online survey' EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5MD4N

Greene, S, Antell, G, Atterby, J, Bhatia, R, Dunne, E, Giles, S, Groh, S, Hanson, E, Hilton, J, Knight, H, Kraftl, P, Morgan, E, Rhodes, I, Rockey, F, Singh, S, Stevenson, C, Sun, S, Warren, B, Wheeley, J & Yamoah, K 2021 'Safety and belonging in the field: a checklist for educators' EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/x53p6h

Software

Greene, S, carbonatefan/OPTiMAL: First release., 2020, Software. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4293851

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