Post-Docs

Paleomagnetism and geomagnetism, and study of Earth’s deep interior

• The history of the geomagnetic field, and the origin of the geodynamo
• What affects the quality of the data that make up the paleomagnetic record
• What dynamical processes in the outer core and core/mantle interactions generate the observed behavior of the geomagnetic field at Earth’s surface

Host: Prof. Jillian Banfield

Previously worked on Cyanobacterial metabolism and genomics. Currently working on how soil microbes affect global biogeochemical cycles and greehnouse gas turnover via multi-omics techniques.

Our Lab Website: http://nanogeoscience.berkeley.edu/

Host: David Shuster
Research Interests: Using low-temperature thermochronometry, numerical models, and inverse methods to understand Earth's surface dynamics, Grand Canyon

Host: Michael Manga

I am a geoscientist who studies multiphase and multicomponent flows in porous media through modeling, high-resolution simulations and experiments. My work seeks to unravel the complex coupling between multicomponent thermodynamics (phase transitions) and multiphase hydrodynamics (flow instabilities) in geologic multiphase mixtures, and provides mechanistic understanding of their nonequilibrium behaviors. I hope to apply these understandings to advance our predictive capability of multiphase systems in Earth science applications, including sustainable use of fossil fuels through subsurface carbon storage, methane production from gas hydrates and prediction of natural geohazards such as volcanic eruptions and thawing permafrost.

Host: Professor Michael Manga

Research Interests: Planetary geophysics; shapes, gravity fields and interiors of planetary bodies, especially icy satellites; planetary magnetism, especially lunar magnetic anomalies and their interactions with the solar wind; space weathering.

Personal website: http://eps.berkeley.edu/~djheming/

Host: William Dietrich

Research Interests: Quantitative geomorphology and earth surface processes, climatic, lithologic, biotic and abiotic controls on geomorphology and Critical Zone processes, paleoclimate influence on modern earth surface processes, landscape evolution modeling, lidar analysis 

Personal website:https://jillamarshall.com/

Host: Michael Manga

Seismic tomographies in velocity, attentuation and scattering. Volcano-seismology. Study of seismic attenuation in heterogeneous regions.

Host: Paul R. Renne

- application and development of 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, using nuclear physics as a geologist

- continental tectonics, metmorphism, brittle and ductile structures, petrochronology, India-Asia collision, syntax formation, subduction initiation, exhumation in subduction zones

https://sites.google.com/view/daniel-rutte/

Host: David Shuster

Research interests: Noble gas thermochronology; geochronology; detrital studies; Himalayan tectonics; remote sensing; LA-ICPMS<

Clay self assembly and defects

Clay/mineral interactions

Carbon Capture and Storage

Phase transformations

Persistent metastability