Edu Leorri Geological Sciences at ECU

My research focuses on understanding coastal evolution at different times scales (from tens of thousands of years to decadal scale) within the Quaternary/Holocene from a multidisciplinary perspective (micropaleontology, geochemistry, sedimentology), including the Anthropogenic impact (physical and chemical) in the coastal systems.

My teaching aims to help students to become critical thinkers. Recently, I have developed a new introductory course: Geology Goes to Hollywood. In class, we use films to discuss geologic topics and critically analyze the science behind these movies along with discussions about diversity. We also incorporate Adobe Spark presentations to make it more dynamic. In addition, we relate the topics covered in class with real life events, making it more meaningful.

Where to Find My Publications in Case You Are Interested

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Some Funding from NSF: 1-Defining and Modeling the Response of a Low Gradient Coastal System to Rapid Sea-Level Rise during the Late Pleistocene. 2-A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Coastal System Response to Sea-Level Rise, Climate Dynamics, and Geomorphic Change. 3-Initiating a New Collaboration between East Carolina University and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu: Post-Glacial Variations in the East Asian Monsoon.

Some Examples of Published Papers Led by Former ECU Grad Students

Twarog MR, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ, Leorri E, Donovan B, Harrison EI, Hindes H, Reed D, Horsman E, Shazili NAM, Parham PR, in press, Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of post-last glacial maximum incised valley-fill, Malay Basin, northern Sunda Shelf, Marine Geology 436, 106457 doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106457

Woodson AL, Leorri E, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ, Parham PR, Thunell RC, Vijayan V, Curtis S. 2017. Sea-surface temperatures for the last 7200 years from the eastern Sunda Shelf, South China Sea: Climatic inferences from planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios. Quaternary Science Reviews 165: 13-24.

Zaremba N, Mallinson DJ, Leorri E, Culver S, Riggs S, Mulligan R, Horsman E, Mitra S. 2016. Controls on the stratigraphic framework and paleoenvironmental change within a Holocene estuarine system: Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA. Marine Geology 379: 109-123.

Moran KL, Mallinson DJ, Culver SJ, Leorri E, Mulligan RP. 2014. Late Holocene evolution of Currituck Sound, North Carolina, USA: Environmental change driven by sea-level rise, storms, and barrier island morphology. Journal of Coastal Research 31: 827-841.

Ellis AM, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ, Corbett DR, Leorri E, Buzas MA, Shazili NA. 2014. The influence of aquaculture on modern foraminifera and sediments in the Setiu estuary and lagoon, Terengganu, Malaysia: a spatial investigation. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 44: 390-415.

My Research Covers Very Diverse Topics

Moreno J., Moreno F., Fatela F., Leorri E. On the dynamic relations between solar activity, climate and human mortality: Data and inferences from two historical municipalities of northern Portugal. Boreas, Boreas 10 (1111), 12563. Open Access!

Leorri E, Zimmerman AR, Mitra S, Christian RR, Fatela F, Mallinson DJ. 2018. Refractory organic matter in coastal salt marshes-effect on C sequestration calculations. Science of the Total Environment 633: 391-398.

Moreno J, Fatela F, Gonçalves MA, Leorri E, Trigo RM, Moreno F, Gómez‐Navarro JJ, Brázdil R, Ferreira MJ. 2018. Climate reconstruction for the Entre‐Douro‐e‐Minho region (NW Portugal) between AD 1626 and AD 1820: synthesis of viticulture data and foraminiferal evidence. Boreas 47: 1033-1049.

Leorri E, Mitra S, Irabien MJ, Zimmerman AR, Blake WH, Cearreta A. 2014. A 700 year record of combustion-derived pollution in northern Spain: Tools to identify the Holocene/Anthropocene transition in coastal environments. Science of the Total Environment 470: 240-247.

Leorri E. (2021) The Anthropocene, Wait, What? A Basque’s Coastal Experience Helps to Figure It Out. In: Culver S.J. (eds) Troubled Waters. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52383-1_7

Currently teaching GEOL 1010: Geology Goes to Hollywood: Natural Disasters

Introductory video

East Magazine Story on this class

Selected as one of the Cool Classes 2021

Other teaching experience:

GEOL 1550: Oceanography

GEOL 1500: Dynamic Earth

GEOL 4010/4011: Sedimentology

COAS 4025: Society and the Sea

GEOL 5350: Marine Geology

Sedimentology fieldtrip

Geological Sciences and C.Q. Brown and Barbara Hedgepeth Brown Seminar Series:

Dr. Olivia Thurston April 8th, 2022, at 11 am "Exploring over a billion years of history in the Grand Canyon, AZ: Application of Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology to deep-time"

Dr Andrew Cohen December 3, 2021 at 12:00pm: “What Continental Scientific Drilling Is Telling Us About Environmental History in East Africa and Implications for Human Evolution”

Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller November 19, 2021 at 12:00pm: “Modern Coral Reefs Under Global Change: Lessons from Goldilocks” and the DEI talk “The First, The Only, One of the Few”

Dr. Steven Goodbred Oct 23 at noon “Bangladesh – Coastal Living in a Land of Superlatives”

Dr. Ricardo Arevalo Nov 13 at noon “The Convergence of Emerging Priorities and Enabling Technologies in Planetary Science”

Dr. Barbara Bekins Feb 5 at noon “Effectiveness of Natural Attenuation for Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Groundwater”

Dr. Becky Flowers March 5 at 11 am “Deep-time (U-Th)/He Thermochronology, the missing sedimentary record, and the Great Unconformity”

Dr. Estella Atekwana April 9 at noon "Biogeophysics: Where geomicrobiology meets geophysics and the search for life"

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