Our lab had a productive summer! Gavin De Mars successfully defended his senior thesis and graduated! Kayla Irizarry presented at NAPC, and Adam Stone and Fran Meyer both presented at Goldschmidt.

Fran and I collected phosphorite samples from the Phosphoria with collaborator Madeline Marshall and undergraduate students Brayden and Isaac from Albion College in Idaho and Wyoming. Cole McCormick and I brought back lots of dolomites from the Mackenzie Mountains with collaborator Justin Strauss from Dartmouth.

We also welcomed Kalev Hantsoo, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, to our group! 

Congrats to our wonderful undergraduate researchers, who had a super successful spring! Abigayle Ward graduated in December, 2022 and will be starting a PhD in soil science at the University of Connecticut. Joshua Karas graduated in May, 2023 and will be starting a position with Arcadis. Gabriel Felker successfully submitted and presented his senior thesis this spring and will be graduating at the end of the summer after field camp. Good luck to everyone, we'll miss you!

Not pictured: Kim at GSA, Dr. Chelsie Bowman at GSA, and Kayla Irizarry at SACNAS.

Congrats to Kayla Irizarry, PhD student, on passing her qualifying exam this spring! Additionally, Kayla was awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. We are so proud of Kayla!

​(photo of Kim, Dr. Chelsie Bowman, Kayla, and Fai Chanchai at GSA in Denver in October, 2022)

I am excited that Dr. Cole McCormick has joined our research group as a postdoctoral scholar. Cole comes to Penn State after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester. He hails from Alberta, Canada, and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Alberta. He will be leading a range of dolomite-based projects. Welcome, Cole!

Dalton Hardisty and I published a diagenetic modeling paper focusing on carbonated redox proxies. We examine how different styles of diagenesis impact U isotopes, CAS isotopes, the Ce anomaly, iodine-calcium ratios, and more. Check it out (open access!) in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta here.

I was also a co-author on two other mass extinction studies!
- Congrats to Terry Isson for his work on the potential for reverse weathering to prolong Early Triassic warming following the end-Permian extinction in Science Advances. Read it here.
- Congrats to Pulkit Singh for leading an integration of paleontological and I/Ca constraints following the end-Triassic extinction in Geobiology. Read it here.

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

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.

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!