Current Research Interests
Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction by palynology.
Study of the influence of base-level and climate change on continental margin stratigraphy and deposition in Antarctica and in the Mediterranean region.
“Mio-Pliocene palynology of the Gibraltar Arc: A new perspective on the Messinian Salinity Crisis” Samples donated by Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“Palynostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental characterization of upper Miocene sediments from western Ross Sea, Antarctica” Supported by: NSF, Washington, D.C.
“Understanding the influence of climate and eustasy on sediment yield during the last glacioeustatic cycle: a palynological and seismic approach”Supported by: CONOCO, Inc., Houston, Texas
Education
Ph. D., Geology (February, 1999 – with “la plus grande distinction”)
Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Bachelor of Science, Oceanography (June, 1993 - with “distinction”)
University of Liege, Belgium
Bachelor of Science, Geology (September, 1992 - with “distinction”)
Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Thesis title: Metallogenic and petrologic analysis of San Matias and Capillani
(Bolivia) Ag-Pb veins
Certification, LA State Trainer - Human Resource Development (October, 2000)
Louisiana State University (LSU) and the Governor's office,
Division of Administration, Louisiana
Selected Recent Publications
Fauquette, S., Suc, J.-P., Bertini, A., Popescu, S.-M., L., Warny, S., Bachiri Taoufiq, N., Perez Villa, M.-J., Ferrier, J., Chikhi, H., Subally D. and Clauzon, G. How much the climate forced the Messinian Salinity Crisis? Quantified climatic conditions from pollen records in the western Mediterranean region. Accepted to Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology.
Warny, S., Bart, P.J. and Suc, J.-P.. Climatic, tectonic and glacioeustatic influences on the Messinian Salinity Crisis: salt for thought. Accepted to Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology.
Warny, S. and J.H. Wrenn (2002). Upper Neogene dinoflagellate cyst ecostratigraphy of the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Micropaleontology, 48(3): 257-272.
Bart, P.J. and Warny, S. (2001). An Evaluation of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: implications of new palynological results on the interpretation of late Miocene Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution. ANTOSTRAT Symposium Program and Abstracts Volume, Sicily, Italy.
Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Iaccarino, S. and Warny, S. (2000) The Neogene of the Bou Regreg valley. Field Trips A and B Guidebook, XIth Congress of Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy, Fes (Morocco): p. 5-15.
Warny, S. and Wrenn, J.H. (1997) New species of Dinoflagellate cysts from the Miocene-Pliocene boundary on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in Paleaobotany and Palynology, v. 96, pp. 281-304.
Warny, S. (1996) Upper Neogene Dinoflagellate Cyst Ecostratigraphy: a core section of the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, IX IPC Program and Abstracts Volume, Houston, Texas.
Brodkom, F., Verkaeren, J., Jardon, B. and Warny, S. (1996) Facteurs de controle des parageneses minerales de filons dans la province Sn-Ag bolivienne: l'exemple du cadre geodynamique des gisements de Toropalca (Potosi), 16eme reunion des Sciences de la Terre, Orleans, Soc. geol. France edit., Paris: p. 15-26.
Seret G., Burjachs F., Cornet C., Dricot E., Francus P., Giralt S., Hilgers B., Julia R., Leroy S., Mergeai I., Roca J., Wansard G. & Warny S., (1996) Abrupt climate fluctuations not directly linked to astronomical causes and attributed to postglacial reorganization of atmospheric and oceanic circulation. OSTC final report, Brussels, 100 p.
Brodkom, F. and Warny, S. (1993) Analyses Paragenetiques et Structurales des Gisements de San Matias et Capillani (Bolivie), Bulletin de la Societe Belge de Geologie, 12 p.
