Blog Posts - Paleoceanography & Sedimentary Geochemistry

Paleoceanography & Sedimentary Geochemistry

New publication: U review chapter out

8/13/2019

Free access (until August 28) to a review chapter on the U isotope paleoredox proxy published in Cambridge Elements, a new type of publication that combines a traditional journal with a traditional textbook. This chapter is part of a series on Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science, led by Tim Lyons, Chris Reinhard, and Sasha Turchyn. Thanks to co-authors Stephen Romaniello and Feifei Zhang for their effort and help with this review!

Link here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/uranium-isotope-paleoredox-proxy/200458FA5D3F890D690C8907FEF738D7

GSA Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award!

7/2/2019

I am very honored to receive the Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award from GSA. Thanks to GSA; my nominators, Jon Payne, Kate Maher, Tim Lyons, and Francis Macdonald; and my many co-authors and collaborators that I have worked with for my dissertation research, for other papers in graduate school, and projects that I started as a postdoc and since--research really is a team effort! I am thrilled, and excited to keep the momentum going.

Photo credit: Priscilla Wigington, UW

Nitriles must match my shirt at all times.

2nd Geobiology Society Conference

7/2/2019

A few weeks ago, I had a great time visiting beautiful Banff and learning about new frontiers in both the 'geo' and 'bio' components of geobiology. I gave an invited talk on uranium isotopes as a paleoredox proxy. Thanks to the conveners for the wonderful conference!

Link to program here.

SEPM Research Symposium

5/26/2019

I had a great time at my first AAPG/SEPM conference in San Antonio! Thanks to the SEPM symposium conveners for an excellent session with interesting perspectives on sedimentology. It was great to meet new colleagues and I enjoyed catching up with friends. Thanks also to my co-authors on this work!

RMGS 2019

4/8/2019

I attended my first Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium on Saturday, with two undergrads from my Biogeochemistry class in tow. It was great to catch up with friends and meet other geobio folks from CU Boulder, Colorado School of Mines, and Weber State, and fantastic to see the breadth of geobiological research in the Rocky Mountain region!

(photo courtesy of RMGS 2019 organizers)

New paper: groundwater uranium reduction and cycling

4/1/2019

I am a co-author on a paper using uranium isotopes to track uranium cycling in the Upper Colorado River Basin, published in Environmental Science & Technology. Thanks to Pierre for leading this project!

You can check out the paper here.

New paper: plants and silicate weathering

2/16/2019

I'm a co-author on a paper in American Journal of Science that's just out! This represents the culmination of effort by myself and other grad students at Stanford, initiated and developed during a graduate seminar taught by Page Chamberlain and TA'ed by myself and Jeremy Caves Rugenstein. We're mostly all off in different places now, so it's fun to see this out!

You can check out the paper here.

A wintry welcome to Wyoming

1/23/2019

I'm excited to start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming -- looking forward to getting my lab started, initiating new projects and collaborations, teaching new classes, and enjoying the mountains. Please email me if you'd like to chat about my research!

(photo to the right: a snowy view from my office)

AGU 2018

12/17/2018

See the abstract to my invited poster here!

Daniel Ibarra, Rachel Bernard, Emily Cooperdock, and I also presented on Asian American geoscience doctorates -- you can download the poster on the Earth and Space Science Open Archive here!

Special volume in Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

10/1/2018

A volume of review papers covering the Early Earth and the Rise of Complex Life has been published in the journal Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. This was co-edited by Tim Lyons, Mary Droser, Susannah Porter, and myself. Thanks to the authors for their interesting contributions!

Access the volume here: http://www.emergtoplifesci.org/content/2/2