Kristine L. DeLong is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University. Dr. DeLong joined the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University in August 2009 after completing her PhD in Marine Science at University of South Florida and her post-doctoral research at the US Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. DeLong has expertise in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology with 19 years of research experience. Her research is focused on climate change during the past 130,000 years, primarily in the subtropics to tropical regions. Current projects include investigating shifts in sea surface temperature and ocean circulation in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea using the chemical variations in the skeletons of boulder-size corals, which live for many centuries. Her newest project, funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States, is building coral-based temperature reconstructions for Veracruz Mexico, Flower Garden Banks in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Virgin Islands, and Little Cayman Island, and she will work with researchers at the University of Oklahoma on comparing these results to climate models to better understand past and future climate change. Flower Garden Banks is a candidate for the Anthropocene GSSP project that she is leading.