Contact

Graham.Mortyn@uab.cat

Orcid

0000-0002-9473-4309

Research Lines

Marine ecology and biodiversity, Paleoceanography

Projects

BIOCAL, CALMED

Graham Mortyn earned BS and MS degrees in Earth Science and a PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San Diego, UCSD). Prior to academia he worked as a hydrogeologist. He was an Assistant Professor in California (California State University, Fresno, CSUF) before UAB arrival in 2004, joining the Department of Geography and ICTA. 

Key Publications

The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters

2023

Agulhas leakage extension and its influences on South Atlantic surface water hydrography during the Pleistocene

2023

Graham's work focuses on the ocean’s role in climate change, and largely employs planktonic foraminifera (calcareous zooplankton from the surface ocean) to explore climatic influences past, present, and future.