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Kimberly V. Lau
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Penn State University
kvlau [at] psu.edu
Kimberly V. Lau
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Penn State University
kvlau [at] psu.edu
BIOGRAPHY
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.
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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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 |