Czaja Precambrian Paleobiology Lab
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People of the Czaja Lab

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Andy Czaja, Associate Professor
Precambrian paleontology, astrobiology, organic geochemistry, isotope geochemistry
University of Cincinnati
Department of Geosciences
500 Geology-Physics Building
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013
Office: +1 513.556.3574
Lab:     +1 513.556.3721
email    CV

Current graduate students

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Andrea Corpolongo, Ph.D. candidate (email)
Project: Paleontology and paleoecology of a 2.5 billion-year-old microfossil assemblage from the Kaapvaal craton of South Africa
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Brianna Orrill, Ph.D. (email)
​Project: Fe isotope and textural biosignatures in 3.2 billion-year-old deltaic deposits from the Moodies Group of South Africa 
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Sam Hall, Ph.D. (email)
Project: Thermal alteration of kerogen in Neoarchean filamentous microfossils




Former undergraduate students

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Jove Kohl, Geology Major
Project: Sources of silica and carbon of Neoarchean Cherts from the Gamohaan Formation, South Africa

Former graduate students

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Andrew Gangidine, Ph.D. 2020
Dissertation: "Trace Element Concentrations in Microbial Fossils as a Novel Biosignature for Life on Ancient Earth and Beyond"

Current position: Science Writer in the Development Office at Yale University, New Haven, CT (email)
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Jeff Osterhout, M.S. 2016 (Ph.D. from UCLA in 2021)
Thesis: "Diversity of Microfossils and Preservation of Thermally Altered Stromatolites from Uncommon Precambrian Paleoenvironments"
           
Current affiliation: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (email)
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