University of Hawaii
Department of Geology and Geophysics
1680 East-West Road, POST 719B
Honolulu, HI 96822
phone: 808-956-7757
e-mail: kpahnke@hawaii.edu
Education
2000-2004 Ph.D., Paleoceanography, Cardiff University (Wales, U.K.).
Advisor: Rainer Zahn
1997-2000 Diplom (~M.Sc.), Geology, Uniersity of Kiel and GEOMAR (Research
Centre for Marine Geosciences), Kiel, Germany.
Advisors: Rainer Zahn, Joachim Schönfeld
1995-1997 Vordiplom (~B.Sc.), Geology and Palaeontology, University of
Göttingen, Germany.
Professional Positions
Dec 08 - present Assistant Research Professor
Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.
Aug 08 - Nov 08 Doherty Associate Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY.
Jan 08 - June 08 Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY.
Jan 06 - Jan 08 Lamont-Doherty Postdoctoral Fellow
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY.
Mentors: Steven L. Goldstein, Sidney R. Hemming
April 04 - Dec 05 Comer Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Mentor: Julian P. Sachs
Awards
Lamont-Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jan. 2006-Dec. 2007.
Comer Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005.
DAAD Ph.D. scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, 2000-01.
ERASMUS stipend, for studies of Geology and Physical Oceanography at the
University College Galway, Ireland, 1998-99.
Professional Activities
Reviewer for: Paleoceanography, G-cubed, Nature, Science, Nature Geoscience, Geology,
Quaternary Science Reviews, Global and Planetary Change, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, NSF.
NSF proposal review panel, Washington DC, 2009.
Session co-chair, AGU Fall Meetings, San Francisco, 2005, 2008.
Co-coordinator of the GEOTRACES intercalibration of Nd isotopes and REEs.
Member of the IODP Science Steering and Evaluation Panel, 2009-2012.
Member of the Graduate Student Committee, Dept. of Geology & Geophys., UH, 2010-present.
Co-organizer of the Geochemistry Seminar Series at LDEO, 2006-07.
Member of the LDEO web committee (2008).
Workshops attended
GEOTRACES North Atlantic Zonal Section cruise planning workshop, Norfolk, March 2010.
GEOTRACES Intercalibration workshop, Norfolk, March 2010.
GEOTRACES Intercalibration workshop, San Francisco, December 2008.
SWAOM workshop ‘State of knowledge on the southwestern Atlantic Ocean margin’,
Montevideo, Uruguay, November 16-22, 2008.
IODP workshop ‘Acquiring high- to ultra-high resolution geologic records of past
climate change by scientific drilling’, Potsdam, Germany, October 2008.
GEOTRACES Atlantic section cruise planning workshop, WHOI, September 2008.
GEOTRACES intercalibration workshop, San Francisco, December 2007.
GEOTRACES Indian Ocean planning workshop, Goa, India, October 2007.
Seagoing experience
BIPOMAC, Paleoceanography of the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean (R/V Polarstern),
Punta Arenas - Wellington, Nov. 2009-Jan. 2010.
GEOTRACES intercalibration 2 (R/V Knorr), Honolulu - San Diego, May 6-29, 2009.
GEOTRACES intercalibration 1 (R/V Knorr), Bermuda - Norfolk, June 29-July 12, 2008.
Transient tracer experiment cruise (R/V Sproul), Santa Barbara Basin, December 2006.
Membership of Scientific Societies
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
Geochemical Society of America