Department of Geology and Geophysics People

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Isotope biogeochemistry. Origins of trace gases in seawater. Controls on carbon isotopic fractionation in marine microalgae. Hydrothermal vent biogeochemistry. Trophic structure and migration behavior of pelagic fishes. Paleoceanography. The technology of isotope ratio measurements in organic materials and trace gases. Carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, January 1986, Geology Thesis: The Record of Carbon, Oxygen, Sulfur, and Strontium Isotopes and Trace Elements in Late Paleozoic Brachiopods.

M.S. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, October 1981, Geology Thesis: Coordinated Textural, Isotopic, and Elemental Analysis of Constituents in Some Middle Devonian Limestones.

B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 1978.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

7/99-present: Professor, University of Hawaii, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Stable isotope biogeochemistry.

7/94-6/99: Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Stable isotope biogeochemistry.

12/97-7/98: Fellow, Antarctic Co-operative Research Center, University of Tasmania.

1/90-6/94: Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Stable isotope biogeochemistry. 5/91: Appointed to Graduate Faculty, Department of Oceanography.

7/89-12/89: Assistant Scientist, Indiana University, Department of Chemistry, Isotopic biogeochemistry development of atmospheric pCO2 paleobarometer.

8/85-7/89: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, Department of Chemistry, Utilization of stable isotopic compositions of organic compounds and carbonates to determine biogeochemical history and Cretaceous paleoceanography.