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(Fall 2024) Attending GSA? Check out our Sunday sessions on Advances and Applications of Thermochronology to Tectonic, Magmatic, Basin, and Geomorphic Problems.
(Summer 2024) Sign-up to take our GSA Short Course on Diffusion-Based chronometry: 510. Methods and Geological Applications in Geo-Thermo-Petrochronology II. The Saturday before the Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Ca.
(Spring 2024) Now open: Special Issue in Geochronology Technical notes on modelling thermochronologic data
(Spring 2024) Congratulations to MS students Anna Miller and Haley Dietz for successfully defending!
(Winter 2024) Congratulations to MS student Gene Rubin for successfully defending!
(Fall 2022) Actively recruiting MS Geology students for a newly funded tectonics/thermochronology project in the Northern Rockies. Learn more here.
(August 2022) New paper out in Geosphere, a practical guide to thermal history modeling: Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: Applications using HeFTy. The companion paper about QTQt will be out shortly!
(August 2022) Just wrapped another excellent field season in the Wallowa Mountains with MS student Gene Rubin and our collaborators from University of Oregon and Dartmouth.
(August 2022) Excited to welcome new graduate students Haley Dietz and Anna Miller to my lab group!
(Summer 2022) Becca Goughnour and Lindsey Sutherland have successfully defended their MS projects and are off to their next adventures!
(May 2022) NSF Tectonics has funded my collaborative grant with Dave Pearson (ISU), Devon Orme (Montana State), and Stephen Cox (Columbia University / LDEO) to do deep-time thermochronology in the Northern Rockies. More about the grant here.
(January 2022) Fully funded MS Geology with a focus on igneous petrology, volcanology, and related geochemistry, in collaboration with the USGS. More info and how to apply here.
(August 2021) Excited to welcome new graduate student Gene Rubin to my lab group!
(December 2020) Check out our AGU session: Techniques and Applications of Thermal History Modeling of Low-Temperature Chronometers [V042]. The live eLightning session starts 12/16 at 11am MST, posters will be archived by AGU.
(December 2020) Xiaofei Pu, Lindsey Sutherland, and I have secured funding from the Center for Advanced Energy Studies to characterize olivine phenocrysts in Eastern Snake River Plain basalts at Idaho National Lab.
(August 2020) Delighted (and feeling fortunate) to have completed a successful field season in the Wallowa Mountains in eastern OR with Becca Goughnour and our colleagues at U Oregon and CalTech.
(April 2020) Excited to welcome new graduate students Becca Goughnour and Lindsey Sutherland to my lab group!
(July 2019) Our new paper in American Journal of Science is out. The thermochronologic record of erosion and magmatism in the Canyonlands region of the Colorado Plateau.
(June 2019) Interested in increasing the active learning in your classroom but not sure where to start? Check out the new On-Ramps: quick-start guides to widely used strategies for actively engaging students in the classroom.
(May 2019) Check out our new paper in Frontiers in Earth Science, led by Leif Karlstrom: Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Inversion of Low-Temperature Thermochronology Around Two 8−10 m Wide Columbia River Flood Basalt Dikes
(March 2019) Excited to join Idaho State Geosciences as an Assistant Professor starting July 2019!
(AGU 2018) Come see our exciting new story from Nepal: Focused Pulse of Rapid Erosion in Central Nepal Related to Himalayan Fault Motion at the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.
(GSA 2018) Check out my invited talk in the "Quantifying Geomorphic Processes and Rates of Landscape Evolution" session at the GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. Also swing by our posters to chat about monazite He dating and paleo-wildfire in Australia.
(September 2018) New paper out in G-cubed: Toward robust interpretation of low-temperature thermochronometers in magmatic terranes.
(May 2018) Excited to join the Hamilton College Geosciences Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2018-19 academic year!
(March 8, 2018) Headed to Baltimore to give a Bromery Lecture at Johns Hopkins' Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences.
(December 2017) Check out my invited talk in the "Applications of Thermochronology to Understand Crustal Systems" session at the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans.
(Summer 2024) Sign-up to take our GSA Short Course on Diffusion-Based chronometry: 510. Methods and Geological Applications in Geo-Thermo-Petrochronology II. The Saturday before the Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Ca.
(Spring 2024) Now open: Special Issue in Geochronology Technical notes on modelling thermochronologic data
(Spring 2024) Congratulations to MS students Anna Miller and Haley Dietz for successfully defending!
(Winter 2024) Congratulations to MS student Gene Rubin for successfully defending!
(Fall 2022) Actively recruiting MS Geology students for a newly funded tectonics/thermochronology project in the Northern Rockies. Learn more here.
(August 2022) New paper out in Geosphere, a practical guide to thermal history modeling: Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: Applications using HeFTy. The companion paper about QTQt will be out shortly!
(August 2022) Just wrapped another excellent field season in the Wallowa Mountains with MS student Gene Rubin and our collaborators from University of Oregon and Dartmouth.
(August 2022) Excited to welcome new graduate students Haley Dietz and Anna Miller to my lab group!
(Summer 2022) Becca Goughnour and Lindsey Sutherland have successfully defended their MS projects and are off to their next adventures!
(May 2022) NSF Tectonics has funded my collaborative grant with Dave Pearson (ISU), Devon Orme (Montana State), and Stephen Cox (Columbia University / LDEO) to do deep-time thermochronology in the Northern Rockies. More about the grant here.
(January 2022) Fully funded MS Geology with a focus on igneous petrology, volcanology, and related geochemistry, in collaboration with the USGS. More info and how to apply here.
(August 2021) Excited to welcome new graduate student Gene Rubin to my lab group!
(December 2020) Check out our AGU session: Techniques and Applications of Thermal History Modeling of Low-Temperature Chronometers [V042]. The live eLightning session starts 12/16 at 11am MST, posters will be archived by AGU.
(December 2020) Xiaofei Pu, Lindsey Sutherland, and I have secured funding from the Center for Advanced Energy Studies to characterize olivine phenocrysts in Eastern Snake River Plain basalts at Idaho National Lab.
(August 2020) Delighted (and feeling fortunate) to have completed a successful field season in the Wallowa Mountains in eastern OR with Becca Goughnour and our colleagues at U Oregon and CalTech.
(April 2020) Excited to welcome new graduate students Becca Goughnour and Lindsey Sutherland to my lab group!
(July 2019) Our new paper in American Journal of Science is out. The thermochronologic record of erosion and magmatism in the Canyonlands region of the Colorado Plateau.
(June 2019) Interested in increasing the active learning in your classroom but not sure where to start? Check out the new On-Ramps: quick-start guides to widely used strategies for actively engaging students in the classroom.
(May 2019) Check out our new paper in Frontiers in Earth Science, led by Leif Karlstrom: Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Inversion of Low-Temperature Thermochronology Around Two 8−10 m Wide Columbia River Flood Basalt Dikes
(March 2019) Excited to join Idaho State Geosciences as an Assistant Professor starting July 2019!
(AGU 2018) Come see our exciting new story from Nepal: Focused Pulse of Rapid Erosion in Central Nepal Related to Himalayan Fault Motion at the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.
(GSA 2018) Check out my invited talk in the "Quantifying Geomorphic Processes and Rates of Landscape Evolution" session at the GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. Also swing by our posters to chat about monazite He dating and paleo-wildfire in Australia.
(September 2018) New paper out in G-cubed: Toward robust interpretation of low-temperature thermochronometers in magmatic terranes.
(May 2018) Excited to join the Hamilton College Geosciences Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2018-19 academic year!
(March 8, 2018) Headed to Baltimore to give a Bromery Lecture at Johns Hopkins' Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences.
(December 2017) Check out my invited talk in the "Applications of Thermochronology to Understand Crustal Systems" session at the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans.