Our Current Group:
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David L. Shuster
ProfessorDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science & BGC
479 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-2607
dshuster@berkeley.edu
Interests: Noble gas geochemistry, thermochronometry, and cosmogenic nuclide observations applied to problems involving alpine glacial erosion, chemical weathering, lunar impacts and magnetism, and thermal conditions of Martian meteorites.
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Anna Clinger
Graduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
483 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
aeclinger@berkeley.edu
Interests: The cryosphere, low-temperature thermochronology, radiogenic isotope geochemistry, and sediment transport
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Andrew Gorin
Graduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
307 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
andrew_gorin@berkeley.edu
Interests: Applications of cosmogenic nuclides, the cryosphere, paleoclimate, and low-temperature thermochronology
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Yueyi Che
Undergraduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
307 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
yueyiche@berkeley.edu
Interests: Geochronology, cosmogenic nuclides, glaciology, geomorphology.
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Jessica Gagliardi
Undergraduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
307 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Read her thesis here
jgagliardi@berkeley.edu
Interests: Low-temperature thermochronometry, geochronology, glaciers, climate-tectonic feedbacks, earth history.
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Paolo Sanchez
Undergraduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
307 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
paolosanchez@berkeley.edu
Interests: Isotopic geochemistry of KPg-Boundary tektites; thermochronometry (Apatite U-Th/He dating); meteorite petrology and geochemistry ; mineral physics and mineral chemistry; formation and development of mineral/ore deposits.
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Andrew Turner
Graduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
179 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
acturner@berkeley.edu
Interests: Radiogenic isotope geochemistry and low temperature thermochronology.
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Tadesse Alemu, Ph.D.
UC President's Postdoctoral FellowUC Berkeley
307 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 644-9200
tadesse.alemu@berkeley.edu
Interests: Sedimentology; structural geology; remote sensing; paleomagnetism; (U-Th)/He dating; Neoproterozoic orogenesis; Continental rifting
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Alyssa Abbey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowUC Berkeley, and Berkeley Geochronology Center
2455 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
(510) 644-9200
alabbey@berkeley.edu
Interests: Tectonics, Geomorphology, Low-temperature themochronometry, Cosmogenic radionuclides, Continental rifting, Citizen science, and Science communication.
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Nathan Brown, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowUC Berkeley, and Berkeley Geochronology Center
2455 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
Interests:Low-temperature thermochronology, luminescence dating, geomorphology, active tectonics
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Greg Balco, Ph.D.
GeochronologistBerkeley Geochronology Center
2455 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
(510) 644-9200
balcs@bgc.org
Interests: Glaciers; systematics and applications of cosmogenic nuclides.
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Brian Jones
Lab Technicain for (U-Th)/He and cosmogenic noble gasesBerkeley Geochronology Center
2455 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
(510) 644-9200
bjones@bgc.org
Interests: Chemistry, noble gas and ICP mass spectrometry
Former Students, Postdocs and Lab Visitors:
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Chelsea Willett, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. Student (2013-2019)
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Now Postdoctoral Researcher
Livermore National Laboratory
willett3@llnl.gov
Interests: Low-temperature thermochronometry, geomorphology and tectonics.
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Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral FellowBerkeley Geochronology Center
2455 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
alka.trip@gmail.com
Interests: Noble gas thermochronology, geochronology, detrital studies, Himalayan tectonics, remote sensing, LA-ICPMS
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Ronald Amundson
Miller Professor at UC Berkeley (2017)
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
UC Berkeley
130 Mulford Hall #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720
Interests: Carbonates; cosmogenic noble gas paleothermometry
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Marissa M. Tremblay, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. student (2012-2017)
Now Assistant Professor
Purdue University
765 494 1255
tremblam@purdue.edu
Interests: Low-temperature thermochronometry, geochronology, geomorphology, tectonics, cosmogenic nuclide geochemistry.
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Nick Fylstra
Former Lab Technicain for (U-Th)/He and cosmogenic noble gasesBerkeley Geochronology Center
Now a graduate student in Canada
Interests: Chemistry, noble gas and ICP mass spectrometry
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Maura Uebner
Former UCB Undergraduate Honors Student (2017)
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Read her thesis here
Interests: Low-temperature thermochronometry, geochemistry, geomorphology, petrology
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Matteo Spagnolo
Former Visiting ProfessorDept of Geography & Environment School of Geoscience Elphinstone Road AB24 3UF Aberdeen UK
Interests: glacial geomorphology, ice sheet dynamics, Quaternary alpine glaciations, subglacial landforms, palaeoclimatology, ice-bed interaction
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Matthew Fox, Ph.D.
Former Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2016)UCB and Berkeley Geochronology Center
Now Lecturer and NERC Independent Research Fellow
University College, London
London, UK
m.fox@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: Using low-temperature thermochronometry, numerical models, and inverse methods to understand Earth's surface dynamics, Grand Canyon
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Sonia Tikoo, Ph.D.
Former Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2015)
UCB and Berkeley Geochronology Center
Now Assistant Professor,
Department of Geophysics, Stanfurd University
sonia.tikoo [-at-] rutgers.edu
Interests: Paleomagnetism, lunar magnetism, meteoritics, planetary differentiation, impact cratering processes, thermochronology, Himalayan tectonics, Precambrian geology
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Xiaodong Deng, Ph.D.
Former China Postdoctoral Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
UCB Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Interests: weathering geochronology, geomorphology, supergene enrichment of ore deposits, U-Th-Pb geochronology of accessory minerals in hydrothermal deposits.
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Ben P. Weiss
Former Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley (2014)
Professor of Planetary Science
Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science
MIT
Cambridge, MA
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Jingen Dai, Ph.D.
Former Visiting Professor (Fall, 2014)
School of Earth Sciences and Resources
China University of Geosciences(Beijing)
djgtibet@163.com
Interests: Using a combination of field observation, geo- and thermochronology, petrology and geochemistry, and sedimentology to understand geological evolution of Himalayan-Tibetan orogen.
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Noah Randolph-Flagg
Graduate StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
307 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
nrflagg@berkeley.edu
Interests: Hydrothermal systems, flood basalts, noble gas exposure dating, seasonal earthquakes
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Rebecca Reverman, Ph.D.
Former Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Interests: Thermochronology, tectonics, geomorphology, geochemistry, alpine landscape development, metamorphic petrolog.
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Curtis Baden
Former Undergraduate Honors StudentDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science
UC Berkeley
Read his thesis here
Now a Graduate Student at Stanfurd
Interests: Comogenic 21Ne; bedrock erosion in the high Sierra Nevada
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Bihai Zheng
Forner Visiting Graduate Student (Nanjing University)
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
UC Berkeley
zhengbihai@gmail.com
Interests: Precambrian tectonic evolution of Tarim Craton in Central Asia. Research of foreland basin evolution in North Tarim by apatite fission track, (U-Th)/He and 4He/3He methods.
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Trevor Hillebrand
Former Undergraduate Honors Student
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
UC Berkeley
Read his thesis here
Now a Graduate Student
at U. Washington
trhille@uw.edu
Interests: Glaciology and paleoclimatology; petrology and tectonics; relief and tectonics in the eastern Sierra Nevada from Mt. Whitney to the Mono Lake/Lee Vining area using (U-Th)/He and 4He/3He thermochronometry.
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Pierre G. Valla, Ph.D.
Former Visiting Graduate Student ResearcherGeological Institute - Earth Surface Dynamics
Now at: Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics
Universite de Lausanne
Lausanne Switzerland
Pierre.Valla@unil.ch
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Loraine Gourbet
Former Visiting Student ResearcherLaboratoire de Géologie de Lyon
CNRS
Lyon, France
loraine.gourbet@ens-lyon.fr
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Johnny Sanders, Ph.D.
Former EPS Graduate StudentNow Postdoctoral Scholar
USGS Menlo Park
Collaborators:
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Kurt Cuffey
ProfessorDepartment of Geography
525 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
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Bill Cassata, Ph.D.
Former EPS Graduate Student
Now Research Staff
Chemical Sciences Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA