Current Research

I am currently focusing on the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) for sediments recovered from Demerara Rise (west Equatorial Atlantic) and Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Indian Ocean) (see links below) by the Oceaning Drilling Program (ODP), and trying to look into the nannoplankton's responses to the paleoceanographic changes associated with the PETM in different settings. My approaches include micropaleontology, stable isotope, and geostatistics.

Research Interests

• Paleontology
• Stable Isotopes
• Biostratigraphy and paleoceanography: ODP Leg 206 (Guatemala Basin, equatorial Pacific)
• PETM and Eocene paleoceanography: ODP Leg 207 (Demerara Rise, central Atlantic)
• Response of nannoplankton to the PETM in Southern Indian Ocean: ODP Leg 183 (Kerguelen Plateau)

Selected Publications

• Jiang, S. and Wise, S.W., in press, Abrupt turnover in calcareous-nannoplankton assemblages across the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum: implications for surface-water oligotrophy over the Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean, , 10th ISAES Proceedings (Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World).


• Jiang, S., Wise, S.W., and Wang, Y., 2007, Cause of the middle/late Miocene carbonate crash: dissolution or low productivity?, Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, Volume 206, 1-24. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.206.013.2007.


• Jiang, S. and Wise, S.W., 2007, Upper Cenozoic calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy, sedimentation rates, and paleoceanography of ODP Leg 206, East Pacific Rise, Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, Volume 206, 1-25. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.206.008.2007.


• Jiang, S. and Wise, S.W., 2006, Surface-water chemistry and fertility variations in the tropical Atlantic across the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum as evidenced by calcareous nannoflora from ODP Leg 207, Hole 1259B, Revue de micropaleontologie, 49(4): 227-244. doi:10.1016/j.revmic.2006.10.002.


• Jiang, S. and Wise, S.W., 2006, Discoaster stellulus Gartner, 1967 re-described, Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 28(2): 81-83.


• Jiang, S. and Wise, S.W., 2006, Surface-water chemistry and fertility variations in the tropical Atlantic across the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum as evidenced by calcareous nannoflora from Demerara Rise, central Atlantic, International Nannoplantkon Association 11th Conference, September 2006, Lincoln, NE, USA, Abstract and Talk.


• Jiang, S. and Wise, S.W., Wang, Y., 2006, Persistent El Nino-like conditions during the middle/late Miocene carbonate crash, Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, July 2006, Beijing, China, Abstract and Talk.


• Jiang, S., 1999, High-resolution calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of Well PY27-2-1, Pearl River Mouth Basin, China, China Offshore Oil and Gas (Geology), 13(3): 189-195.

Teaching Assistant

Florida State University

• GLY1000L - Dynamic Earth Lab
• GLY2010C - Physical Geology Lab
• GLY3610C - Paleontology Lab