Assistant Professor
University of Wyoming
kimberly.lau [at] uwyo.edu
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Laramie, Wyoming 82071
Assistant Professor
University of Wyoming
kimberly.lau [at] uwyo.edu
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Laramie, Wyoming 82071
I am recruiting new lab members who are interested in using geochemistry, modeling, and the sedimentary record. Please check out my department website and email me if you are interested in working with me for your graduate or postdoctoral studies! You can find more information about the Geology and Geophysics department here.
BIOGRAPHY
Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Stanford University, 2017
B.S. with honors in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, 2009
I am interested in the co-evolution of oceanic oxygenation and the geologic carbon cycle in Earth history. I focus on deciphering the causes of anoxia in the Phanerozoic and the pattern and extent of ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic, and their links to animal evolution and extinction. I investigate changes in marine redox conditions in the context of fluctuations in other global biogeochemical cycles, and their relationship to geologic drivers such as climate change, volcanism, glaciation, and tectonics. I address these research topics through a combination of nontraditional isotopic analyses, numerical modeling, and carbonate sedimentology.
B.S. with honors in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, 2009
I am interested in the co-evolution of oceanic oxygenation and the geologic carbon cycle in Earth history. I focus on deciphering the causes of anoxia in the Phanerozoic and the pattern and extent of ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic, and their links to animal evolution and extinction. I investigate changes in marine redox conditions in the context of fluctuations in other global biogeochemical cycles, and their relationship to geologic drivers such as climate change, volcanism, glaciation, and tectonics. I address these research topics through a combination of nontraditional isotopic analyses, numerical modeling, and carbonate sedimentology.
awards and honors |
affiliations |
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Outstanding Graduate Student, Geological Sciences, Stanford
Agouron Geobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship ARCS Foundation Fellowship David Worthington Named Grant, AAPG Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Award, GSA Certificate of Achievement in Mentoring in the School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University Distinction in the Major, Yale University |
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyoming
Lyons Biogeochemistry Group, UC Riverside Payne Paleobiology Lab, Stanford University Environmental Isotope Geochemistry, Stanford University Stanford MC-ICP-MS/TIMS (Plasma) Lab, Stanford University Briggs Research Group, Yale University |
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