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Paleobotany - Plant Ecophysiology - Terrestrial Paleoclimate
Welcome!
Welcome!
I am an Associate Professor in Residence at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Connecticut. My research focuses on reconstructing deep-time climates and ecosystems through fossil plants. I am very interested in how plants interact with their environment and my research often veers into neo-ecology and ecophysiology.
Plants make up over 80% of Earth's living biomass. They shape global ecosystems. They sit at the base of terrestrial food chains. Their collective metabolic activity comprise the largest fluxes in crucial global biogeochemical cycles: photosynthesis, transpiration, and respiration. It is not a stretch to say that plants ARE the biosphere. As such, fossil plants are the avenue to understanding biosphere and climate evolution through Earth's History. Since we are currently living at a time when the Earth's future climate and biosphere future evolution are a major concern, there is no better motivation to study fossil plants. The past is the key to the future!
Basic Info
Basic Info
Email: tammo (dot) reichgelt (AT) uconn (dot) edu
Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID, iNaturalist.
Fun Facts
Fun Facts
Place of Birth: Monster, Netherlands
Academic Trajectory: Utrecht University (BSc, MSc), University of Otago (PhD), Columbia University (Postdoc, Lecturer).
Other activities: Outdoor sports (hiking, biking, running), macrophotography, citizen science.
News
News
May 23, 2025: New paper out in Earth History and Biodiversity on the paleoclimate of the Landslip Hill deposit in southern New Zealand.
April 3, 2025: New paper out in Organic Geochemistry on chemotaxonomy of Kenyan grasses.
March 23, 2025: New paper out in American Journal of Botany on environmental controls of leaf mass per area in angiosperms.
March 19, 2025: New paper out in Earth-Science Reviews on best practices for leaf cuticle preparation.
February 18, 2025: Interviewed by Salon on the Miocene as a proxy for future climates. Nice read!
January 13, 2025: New paper out in Plant Ecophysiology on the response of plant stomata to environmental parameters such as light and CO2.
January 11, 2025: New paper out in Evolving Earth on global Miocene biomes and terrestrial productivity.
January 9, 2025: Gave a talk at UConn's Center for Learning in Retirement. What a fantastic group! The talk was on Rock dwellers in Urban Heat Islands: adapting to a harsh novel biome.
November 27, 2024: Presented at the Geological Society of New Zealand meeting in Dunedin (Ōtepoti) New Zealand. Winners and losers in the New Zealand flora since the Miocene.
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