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Kimberly V. Lau
​Assistant Pr
ofessor
Department of Geosciences
Penn State University
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kvlau [at] psu.edu

BIOGRAPHY

Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Riverside, 2017-2018
​Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Stanford University, completed 2016

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, current and former

Sloan Research Fellowship
Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), GSA
GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division Pre-tenure Award
Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award, GSA
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 Geosciences, Penn State
Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State
Biogeochemistry Graduate Program, Penn State
Astrobiology Graduate Program, Penn State
Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences
​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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