CV

Education

• B.S. in Geology, minors in Physics and Marine Sciences, Rutgers University, 2016 – 2020
• Ph.D in Oceanography/Climate Science, MIT-WHOI Joint Program, 2020 – 2025 (expected)

Work experience

• June 2020 – Present: Graduate Research Assistant
  • MIT-WHOI Joint Program (Paleoclimate Group)
  • Advisors: Dr. Anne Cohen, Dr. Delia Oppo
• June – August 2019: Summer Student Fellow
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Advisors: Dr. Delia Oppo, Dr. Jake Gebbie
• June 2017 – May 2020: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Honors Thesis)
  • Rutgers University (Stratigraphy and Earth History Group)
  • Advisors: Dr. Kenneth Miller, Dr. Maria Makarova
• September 2018 – May 2019: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Rutgers University (Seismology Lab)
  • Advisor: Dr. Vadim Levin
• June 2018 – August 2018: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • National Seismological Network of Costa Rica (RSN) and the Costa Rican Insitute of Electricity (ICE)
  • Advisors: Dr. Ivonne Arroyo, Krista Thiele

Fellowships

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2022-2025)
• Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2019-2020)

Publications

Galochkina, M., Cohen, A. L., Oppo, D. W., Mollica, N., & Horton, F. (2023). Coral Sr-U thermometry tracks ocean temperature and reconciles Sr/Ca discrepancies caused by Rayleigh fractionation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004541

Galochkina, M., Makarova, M., Miller, K., Browning, J., Keating, R., &; Wright, J. (2023). Multispecies planktonic and benthic foraminiferal stable isotopes from North Atlantic subtropical site 558: Thermocline intensification during the Mid-Miocene Climate Transition. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 53(2), 143–156. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.53.2.143.

Service and leadership

• Graduate Climate Conference
  • Conference co-chair (2023)
  • Organizer (2022-present)
• JP ASK
  • Board Member (2021-present)
  • Graduate mentor (2020-present)
• JP-SSF Mentorship Program
  • Graduate Mentor (2021-present)
• WHOI Department of Geology and Geophysics Faculty Search
  • Student Committee Member and Chair (2020-2021)
• MIT Mentor Advocate Partnership
  • Mentor (2020-2021)

Fieldwork

• Curaçao Coral Coring Fieldwork (August 2023 - chief scientist)
  • Collected 40 skeletal cores of Orbicella faveolata
• WHOI/TNC Super Reefs Maui Fieldwork (June 2023)
  • Underwater benthic surveying
• R/V Tioga (July 2019)
  • Introductory 1-day cruise for undergraduates to learn data collection and sampling methods with array of oceanographic instruments and technology

Selected Presentations

Galochkina, M., Cohen, A.l., Oppo, D., Mollica, N.R., Horton, F., Sr-U thermometry captures ocean temperatures and corrects for Sr/Ca vital effects in a slow-growing Atlantic coral, Abstract PP36A-06, 2022 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union. [Talk]

Galochkina, M., Cohen, A.l., Oppo, D., Mollica, N.R., Horton, F., Accurate seawater temperatures from coral Sr-U, Abstract OC11-1695, 2022 Meeting, Ocean Sciences. [Poster]

Galochkina, M., Oppo, D., Gebbie, G., Thornalley, D., Keigwin, L.D., Benthic δ18O evidence for the transfer of Common Era surface temperature anomalies via North Atlantic Deep Water, Abstract PP43D-1626, 2019 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union. [Poster]

Galochkina, M., Levin, V., and Arroyo, I.G., New constraints on the upper mantle properties beneath Cordillera Talamanca. Talk given on January 14, 2019 at the Centroamerican School of Geology, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Galochkina, M., Miller, K.G., Makarova, M., Browning, J.V., and Wright, J.D., Miocene North Atlantic sea surface and thermocline temperature variations (20-8 Ma), Abstract PP13E-1371, 2018 Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union. [Poster]