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New paper - Cr isotopes across OAE 2 from the Western Interior Seaway

9/4/2022

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Congrats to Lucien Nana Yobo on his recent first authored publication! 

LIP volcanism (not anoxia) tracked by Cr isotopes during Ocean Anoxic Event 2 in the proto-North Atlantic region in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
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Welcome to Fran and Gabe!

9/4/2022

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Fran Meyer, recent UC Berkeley alum and MIT research assistant, has joined our research group this fall. Fran and Kim went to SLAC this past summer for some pre-grad school data collection.

Gabe Felker is a senior thesis student co-advised by Josh Garber.

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Congrats to our departing group members!

9/4/2022

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Kaitlin Taylor successfully defended her M.S. thesis and is on a new adventure as a chemist in a pharmaceutical company in her home state of Connecticut.

Chelsie Bowman accepted a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Georgia Southern University and is excited to return to the south to teach geology lectures and labs.

Congrats and good luck to you both!
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celebrating Kaitlin's defense!
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At a Oregon Trail marker, Idaho
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Student rock stars

5/28/2022

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Undergraduate Researcher Josh Karas presented his first research poster this spring, including at the Northeast Geobiology Symposium!

The grad students in our lab did an amazing job at the Penn State Geosciences Grad Colloquium. Kaitlin Taylor and Adam Stone were awarded 3rd and 4th place, respectively,  for best MS talks/posters, Kayla Irizarry received 2nd place in best pre-comp talks, and Fai Chanchai  was selected first place in pre-comps posters!

Big congrats to all lab members this spring!
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Josh presenting his modeling study.
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New paper - revisiting modeling of U isotopes from the Late Permian to Early Triassic

5/28/2022

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Congratulations to Stanford MS student Michael Pimentel-Galvan for the publication of his paper, Duration and Intensity of End-Permian Marine Anoxia, in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems! Michael revisited modeling of the U isotope and concentration records using a Monte Carlo scheme over a range of parameter values, evaluating the model runs using PCA. 

Please see the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010130
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New AGILE program!

1/3/2022

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I am thrilled to announce the launch of AGILE, a set of programs aimed to increase inclusion and participation of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the geosciences! Dan Ibarra (Brown University) and I are co-Lead PIs. Our other PIs are David Ho (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa), Sora Kim (UC Merced), Sonya Legg (Princeton University), Randye Rutberg (Hunter College), Jessica Wang (Bellevue College), and Sam Ying (UC Riverside).

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) represent one of the fastest growing demographics in the U.S. today and yet lag in participation and representation in geoscience graduate programs compared to other STEM fields. Thus, our program aims to recruit AAPI STEM undergraduates to geoscience graduate programs and enhance belonging of AAPI geoscientists as a whole. This project will expose undergraduates from MSIs (Minority Serving Institutions) in geoscience-adjacent STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields to geoscience research and careers, provide a new research internship opportunity and create national cross-career stage connections between AAPI geoscientists. Our ultimate goal is to produce a cohort of geoscience leaders from a group often left out of diversity discussions.

Our project’s components include:
1) A researcher visit program to recruit undergraduate AAPI into geosciences via visits to AAPI-serving MSIs from geoscience researchers.
2) A research internship program to carry out research with AAPI mentors.
3) Organizing virtual and in-person events and a career development workshop to enhance belonging, identity, and leadership within the AAPI geoscience community across career stages and sectors in collaboration with the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences (AAPIiG) affinity group.
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Please visit our website for application information, research project sign ups, and contact information.
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End of 2021 lab activities

1/3/2022

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Our group finished out 2021 strong! Fai, Kayla, and Kim joined NSF project collaborators on a field trip to the Death Valley region. They had a great time chatting science and seeing classic Neoproterozoic - Cambrian sections with awesome folks.

Chelsie, Kaitlin, and Kim went to AGU in New Orleans. Congrats on some great presentations!
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Fai passed her qualifying exam!

11/28/2021

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Congrats to PhD student Fai Chanchai for successfully completing her first major milestone in her graduate degree. We're so proud of you!
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New Publication! U isotopes in the Miocene Monterey Formation.

11/15/2021

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Pleased to share a new paper on the controls on U isotope variability in black shales, using a Miocene case study. The Monterey Formation is inherently interesting as its very phosphatic and is also the source rock for the CA petroleum industry. It also was deposited in a number of unique basins (bottom left) where U isotope behavior varied significantly. It's a complicated story, but we use U isotopes and U concentrations to try to understand the major controls (apatite concentration, basin hydrography, productivity) that drive the range in isotope values that we observe. We also show that in these Miocene basins, the isotope offset in anoxic--but not euxinic--basins were just as large as in euxinic basins, which could indicate that the modern budget is not representative of ancient ones.

This work was done as a postdoc at UCR with my mentor Tim Lyons, and I am glad to have had the opportunity to work with many new geoscientists. Thanks also to the Agouron Institute, NASA, and ACS PRF for funding this work!

A free PDF can be accessed here until the first week of January.
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New publication! Linking temperature to anoxia for the end-Permian extinction

11/5/2021

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Very excited about this new paper out in Nature Geoscience titled End-Permian marine extinction due to temperature-driven nutrient recycling and euxinia! We use constraints of global redox conditions (from uranium isotopes) and the spatial variability of redox (from many different types of proxies) to compare with cGENIE results. With this data-model coupling, we argue that warmer temperatures in the Early Triassic led to higher microbial respiration rates in the ocean (i.e., a stronger biological pump), which would have resulted in high amounts of nutrient recycling in the water column, sustaining anoxic conditions and poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas! Thanks, Dom, for leading this very fun project.
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