Dr. Aimee Bichler
Biography
Earth and Planetary Science lecturer with a focus on undergraduate university education. Skills include paleoclimatology, paleo-oceanography, sedimentology, geochemistry, sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and petroleum geology. Experience teaching a wide variety of courses including Physical Geology, Planet Earth, Meteorology and Oceanography and higher-level science classes such as Environmental Science. Familiar with multiple teaching modalities including in-person, online, synchronous and asynchronous courses. Graduate research specialized in global biogeochemical processes including Earth's carbon cycle. Research scope analyzed marine microfossils in deep sea and shallow water sediments for their stable and radiogenic isotopic composition, and trace metal ratios. The geochemical tracers tell us about Earth's global ice volume, sea-level and ocean circulation changes. In addition, we can reconstruct marine surface and bottom water temperatures. Carbon isotopes teach us about changes in carbon storage between Earth's reservoirs and timing of such shifts. Understanding trends in past global climate helps humans make better decisions for predicting future changes in Earth's systems.
Degrees Earned
Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina
M.S., Geological Sciences, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, New Jersey
B.S., Evolutionary Anthropology, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, New Jersey
Courses Taught
Physical Geology
Historical Geology
Planet Earth
Meteorology
Oceanography
Experience Qualifications
University of Houston-Downtown – Houston, Texas 2022 – Present
Lecturer, Geology – Department of Natural Sciences
Lone Star College University Park – Houston, Texas 2021 – Present
Adjunct Faculty Geology – Department of Chemistry, Physics and Geology
Lee College – Baytown, Texas 2021 – Present
Adjunct Faculty Geology – Division of Physical and Biological Sciences
Christ The Redemmer Catholic School – Houston, Texas 2021 – 2022
Substitute Teacher – Elementary and Middle School
Cy-Fair Public School District – Houston, Texas 2021 – 2022
Substitute Teacher – Jersey Village and Cypress Middle and High Schools
University Of Houston-Downtown – Houston, Texas 2020 – 2022
Adjunct Faculty Geology – Department of Natural Sciences
More Information
Research
Research scope analyzed marine microfossils in deep sea and shallow water sediments for their stable and radiogenic isotopic composition, and trace metal ratios. The geochemical tracers tell us about Earth's global ice volume, sea-level and ocean circulation changes. In addition, we can reconstruct marine surface and bottom water temperatures.
Publications
Pusz, A.E., R. Thunell, K. and Miller. 2011. Deep water temperature, carbonate ion, and ice volume changes across the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition, Paleoceanography, DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001950.
Sugarman, P.J., Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Aubry, M.-P., Brenner, G.J., Bukry, D., Butari, B., Feigenson, M.D., Kulpecz, A.A., McLaughlin, P.P., Jr., Mizintseva, S., Monteverde, D.H., Olsson, R., Pusz, A.E., Rancan, H., Tomlinson, J., Uptegrove, J., and Velez, C.C., 2010. Medford Site. In Miller, Sugarman, Browning, et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 174AX (Suppl.), College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–93. doi:2973/odp.proc.ir.174AXS.109.2010.
Pusz, A.E., K. Miller, J. Wright, M. Katz, B. Cramer, and D. Kent. 2009. Stable isotopic response to the late Eocene extraterrestrial impacts, in Koeberl, C., and Montanari, A., eds., The late Eocene Earth – Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts: GSA Special Paper 452, p. 83-96.
Sugarman, P.J., Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Monteverde, D.H., Uptegrove, J., McLaughlin, P.P., Jr., Stanley, A.M., Wehmiller, J., Kulpecz, A., Harris, A., Pusz, A., Kahn, A., Friedman, A., Feigenson, M.D., Barron, J., and McCarthy, F.M.G., 2007. Cape May Zoo site. In Miller, K.G., Sugarman, P.J., Browning, J.V., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 174AX (Suppl.): College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–66. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.174axs.108.2007.