She received her Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of South Florida and completed post-doctoral research at the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, FL. Professor DeLong’s research is focused on climate change of the past, primarily in the subtropics to tropical regions for the past 120,000 years. She is also concerned with the refinement, fidelity, and data analysis methods used in paleoclimate reconstructions. She has participated in international projects including the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), PAGES 2K, and the Marine Annually Resolved Proxy Archives (MARPA), as well as the South Central Climate Science Center funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior.