ABOUT PROFESSOR GERTA KELLER

Prof. Gerta Keller at Guyot Hall, Princeton. 2013.

Professor Gerta Keller in the atrium of Guyot Hall, with an Allosaurus dinosaur excavated during a 1941 dig.  Photo by Peter Murphy.

Gerta Keller is Professor of Paleontology and Geology in the Geosciences Department of Princeton University since 1984. She was born in Schaan, Liechtenstein and grew up in Switzerland.  She is a citizen of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the United States of America. She received a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University in 1973 and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1978. Since 1984 she has been Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

G. Keller, Nagori, M. L., Chaudhary, M., A. Reddy, N., Jaiprakash, B. C., Spangenberg, J. E., Mateo, P., and Adatte, T., “Cenomanian-Turonian sea-level transgression and OAE2 deposition in the Western Narmada Basin, India”, Gondwana Research, vol. 94, pp. 73–86, 2021.
H. Khozyem, Adatte, T., Keller, G., and Spangenberg, J. E., “Organic carbon isotope records of the Paleocene- Eocene thermal maximum event in India provide new insights into mammal origination and migration”, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 212, p. 104736, 2021.
G. Keller, Mateo, P., Monkenbusch, J., Thibault, N., Punekar, J., Spangenberg, J. E., Abramovich, S., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Schoene, B., Eddy, M. P., Samperton, K. M., Khadri, S. F. R., and Adatte, T., “Mercury linked to Deccan Traps volcanism, climate change and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction”, Global and Planetary Change (Invited research article), vol. 194 (2020) 103312, pp. 1-17, 2020.
B. Schoene, Eddy, M. P., Samperton, K. M., C. Keller, B., Keller, G., Adatte, T., and Khadri, S. F. R., “U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction”, Science, vol. 363, pp. 862–866, 2019.
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