RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in exploring coevolution by investigating symbioses between different marine groups. My current research includes describing hesionids from whale falls in Monterey, California and studying the microbial mat community of the Santa Barbara Basin, California. To learn more about the CalEchoes cruise to the Santa Barbara Basin, please see the cruise blog at http://calechoes.wordpress.com/.

PUBLICATIONS

Payne, J.L., Summers, M., Rego, B., Altiner, D., Jiayong, Wei, Youyi, Yu, Lehrmann. D.J., Global controls on local recovery from end-Permian mass extinction? Comparing pattern and timing of recovery in Early and Middle Triassic foraminifers from a carbonate platform in southern China to global carbon cycle dynamics. Paleobiology. In Press.

Summers, M., Payne, J.L., Altimer, D., Lehrmann, D.J., Wei, J., 2007, Recovery of foraminiferan communities coincident with carbon cycle stabilization after end-Permian extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 566.

Dougherty, A.J., Summers, M., Gravley, D. and Hikuroa, D., 2009, Paleoseismic insight gained by augmenting LiDAR with GPR. Joint New Zealand Geological and Geophysical Societies Conference (Geosciences09), Oamaru 23-27 November, Conference Proceedings