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Kimberly V. Lau
​Assistant Professor, Biogeochemistry
University of Wyoming
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kimberly.lau [at] uwyo.edu
Department of Geology & Geophysics
​Laramie, Wyoming 82071

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. 

awards and honors

affiliations

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