Post-Docs

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: Burkhard Militzer

Research Interests: Planetary interiors; high pressure physics; first-principles computer simulations techniques; equations of state.

Host: Michael Manga

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

Host: Roland Bürgmann

I am interested in geodetic observations (GPS and InSAR) to characterise the crustal deformation around subduction zones and large strike slip faults. I mainly focus on aseismic transient processes such as slow slip events and postseismic relaxation.

Host: Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

Earth history, Precambrian geology, geobiology, paleoenvironments, diagenesis, paleomagnetism, rock magnetism, X-ray spectroscopy, in-situ microbeam techniques.

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

Host: David Shuster

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

My research is to develop a unified understanding of how the tropical atmosphere works, and the key is to understand moist convection‒deep cumulus clouds and thunderstorms. My Ph.D. thesis was focused on the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a planetary scale month-long rainfall pattern in the tropics. I am now thinking about convective phenomena at other temporal and spatial scales, including the mesoscale cloud clusters and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)

Personal website: http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~dyang/