Principal Investigator

Organization: University of Washington Burke Museum
Email: lnesbitt@uw.edu
Research Description
Liz is Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Micropaleontology at the Burke Museum and Associate Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Washington. She is currently using benthic foraminifera to study and monitor anthropogenic pollution in Puget Sound. She also studies the molluscan faunal changes across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary along the Pacific Northwest coast.