Postdocs
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Andrea Corpolongo, Ph.D. (email)
Projects: Paleontology and paleoecology of a 2.5 billion-year-old microfossil assemblage from the Kaapvaal craton of South Africa; Developing instrumentation for future samples returned from Mars |
Graduate students
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Brianna Orrill, Ph.D. candidate (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. candidate (email)
Project: Determining metabolisms of Neoarchean filamentous microorganisms using isotopic and geochemical proxies and the effects of thermal alteration |
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Former undergraduate students
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Abby George, Geology Major
Projects: 3D structures of Neoarchean carbonate microbiaites, Gamohaan Formation, South Africa; Creating a database for my Precambrian paleobiology collection Jove Kohl, Geology Major
Project: Sources of silica and carbon of Neoarchean Cherts from the Gamohaan Formation, South Africa Current position: Master's student at the University of New Mexico (email) |
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) |