Staff Profile

William Thompson

Preferred Name: William G Thompson

SCIENTIST EMERITUS

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS

Email: wthompson@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3745

Office: CLARK 259 MS#22 

Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 22
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Education

B.A. Wesleyan University, 1998, Geology
M.A. Wesleyan University, 1999, Geology
Ph.D. Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 2005, Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography

Research Interests

Using Uranium-series geochronology to assess the magnitude, timing, and rates of sea level change and global climate change.