I am the UC President's postdoctoral fellow. I did my PhD at Oklahoma State University where I used field sedimentologic and structural, and remote sensing techniques to constrain the geodynamic evolution of an exhumed IntraCONtinental Sag (ICONS) basin.
Currently, I am doing a (U-Th)/He dating combined with paleomagnetic constraints to provide the necessary data for the testing of mechanisms for large scale exhumation following Neoproterozoic collisional orogenesis in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Particularly,...
I am an experimental high-pressure mineral physicist. My current research pursuits involve chemical mixing (and de-mixing) in planetary interiors and melting of materials at high pressures. I employ laser-heated diamond anvil cells and a variety of in-situ and ex-situ techniques to characterize material properties in order to understand planetary interiors.
I graduated in December 2022 with a Ph.D. degree in geology and geochemistry at the University of Strasbourg (France).
The main goals of my Ph.D. thesis were to (i) constrain the processes of mantle exhumation related to ocean opening at rifted passive margins, (ii) characterize sources of fluid leading to serpentinization, and (iii) quantify mass fluxes and particularly the transfer of transition metals during serpentinization. To achieve this, I combined petrological and geochemical analyses of natural serpentinites collected in the Alpine Tethys ophiolites and conducted...
Dr. Daria Holdenried-Chernoff is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Bruce Buffett. She joined EPS as a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc Mobility Fellow. Daria’s research focuses on the development of theoretical models to study the evolution of Earth’s magnetic field over timescales relevant to the paleomagnetic record, as well as studying short timescale wave dynamics in Earth’s outer core. In 2024, Daria was awarded the Doornbos Memorial Prize by the Committee on Studies of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI)...
Host: Daniel Stolper Originally from Berlin (Germany), Nina received both her B.Sc. in Geosciences and M.Sc. in Geology from University of Potsdam working on fluvial organic carbon transport in a lowland river system (Rio Bermejo) in Argentina in collaboration with the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ). She then moved to Halifax (Canada) and graduated in April 2024 with a Ph.D. degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Dalhousie University working on amino acid-specific isotope analysis in marine sediments from continental margins. This work uses...
