Annika is a postdoc originally from Wyoming. She attended undergrad at Occidental College and then completed her PhD at the University of Oregon. At UO, she completed an interdisciplinary study of the Three Sisters Volcanic Complex in central OR to better understand the active magmatic system. In the VIBE lab, she is growing her volcanology toolkit by studying melt inclusions from Glacier Peak and South Sister volcanoes in the Cascades to better understand their magma storage. Outside of the lab, you can find Annika...
Nick is an isotope geochemist in the Stolper group. He is broadly interested in using light stable isotope tracers to reconstruct past environmental, climatic, and ecological systems.
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 amino acid stable isotopes as a proxy to improve...
I am an Assistant Project Scientist at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science of the University of California, Berkeley. I am part of Burkhard Militzer's research team and my area of focus is the study of planetary interiors, specifically the physics of high-pressure and high-temperature matter. I obtained my PhD degree in Physics from the Universidad de Chile in 2015, and in my research I use molecular dynamics and electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) to understand matter at the atomic level. This approach allows me to determine equations of...
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...
I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Donald J. DePaolo. I am an isotope geochemist specializing in laboratory-based experimental studies. My research focuses on the fractionation of metal stable isotopes (e.g., Mg, Ca, Ba, and Sr) during mineral nucleation and growth, particularly in carbonate and sulfate systems. To address these questions, I use a combination of mineralogical and nanoscale characterization techniques, including SEM-EDS, TEM-EDS, XRD, (GI)WAXS, and (GI)SAXS. I am also interested in using isotopic tools to investigate mineral formation processes, including...
I am a quantitative stratigrapher, and my work sits at the intersection of sedimentation, paleoclimate, and surface processes. I'm fascinated by the sedimentary record of glaciation, in particular the global Snowball Earth glaciations of the Neoproterozoic, and how glacial stratigraphy records climate dynamics like astronomically-forced ice ages. To this end, I also utilize non-glacial records of cyclic sedimentation to assess the presence and character of astronomical forcing and the implications for planetary climate. Finally, I think about sedimentation at continental scales, and how...
