Surface Process Geochemistry

David L. Shuster

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.

Anna Clinger

Interests: The cryosphere, low-temperature thermochronology, radiogenic isotope geochemistry, and sediment transport

Andrew Gorin

Interests: Applications of cosmogenic nuclides, the cryosphere, paleoclimate, and low-temperature thermochronology

Yueyi Che

Interests: Geochronology, cosmogenic nuclides, glaciology, geomorphology.

Jessica Gagliardi

Read her thesis here
jgagliardi@berkeley.edu

Interests: Low-temperature thermochronometry, geochronology, glaciers, climate-tectonic feedbacks, earth history.

Paolo Sanchez

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.

Andrew Turner

Interests: Radiogenic isotope geochemistry and low temperature thermochronology.

Tadesse Alemu, Ph.D.

Interests: Sedimentology; structural geology; remote sensing; paleomagnetism; (U-Th)/He dating; Neoproterozoic orogenesis; Continental rifting

Alyssa Abbey, Ph.D.

Interests: Tectonics, Geomorphology, Low-temperature themochronometry, Cosmogenic radionuclides, Continental rifting, Citizen science, and Science communication.

Nathan Brown, Ph.D.

Interests:Low-temperature thermochronology, luminescence dating, geomorphology, active tectonics

Greg Balco, Ph.D.

Interests: Glaciers; systematics and applications of cosmogenic nuclides.

Brian Jones

Interests: Chemistry, noble gas and ICP mass spectrometry

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.

Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ph.D.

Interests: Noble gas thermochronology, geochronology, detrital studies, Himalayan tectonics, remote sensing, LA-ICPMS

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

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.

Nick Fylstra

Interests: Chemistry, noble gas and ICP mass spectrometry

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

Matteo Spagnolo

Interests: glacial geomorphology, ice sheet dynamics, Quaternary alpine glaciations, subglacial landforms, palaeoclimatology, ice-bed interaction

Matthew Fox, Ph.D.

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

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

Xiaodong Deng, Ph.D.

Former China Postdoctoral Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
UCB Department of Earth and Planetary Science

dengxd1983@gmail.com

Interests: weathering geochronology, geomorphology, supergene enrichment of ore deposits, U-Th-Pb geochronology of accessory minerals in hydrothermal deposits.

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

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.

Noah Randolph-Flagg

Interests: Hydrothermal systems, flood basalts, noble gas exposure dating, seasonal earthquakes

Rebecca Reverman, Ph.D.

Former Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth and Planetary Science

rlreverman@berkeley.edu

Interests: Thermochronology, tectonics, geomorphology, geochemistry, alpine landscape development, metamorphic petrolog.

Curtis Baden

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.

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.

Pierre G. Valla, Ph.D.

Loraine Gourbet

Johnny Sanders, Ph.D.

Kurt Cuffey

Paul Renne

Bill Cassata, Ph.D.

Former EPS Graduate Student

Now Research Staff
Chemical Sciences Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Livermore, CA