Bio

Education

2001    Ph.D.  Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1999    M.S.    Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College

1996    B.A.     Dual Major: Earth Sciences and Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz

Professional Appointments

2007 -            Research Associate, Plant Conservation and Biology, Chicago Botanical Garden

2006 -            Courtesy Appointment, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

2004 -            Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University

2002 - 2004   Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology

2001 - 2002   Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Expertise

Aqueous geochemistry

Radiogenic isotope geochemistry

Geomicrobiology

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

2008    Geochemical Society F. W. Clarke Medal

2007    David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship

2005    Searle Center Junior Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University

2002    Dorr Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2000    Scott Turner Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1998    Graduate Alumni Research Award, Dartmouth College

1996    Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship, Dartmouth College

1996    Doug Drexler Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Santa Cruz

1996    Ellen Renard Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Santa Cruz

1996    Highest Honors, Chemistry Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

1996    Honors, Earth Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Funding

2009 - 2011    OPP-NSF “Collaborative research: chemical weathering and organic carbon export

                        from Arctic watersheds, North Slope, AK” $258,707 out of $657,845 (PI Andrew

                       Jacobson; co-PI Thomas Douglas; co-PI James W. McClelland)

2008 - 2010    EAR-NSF “The Ca isotope geochemistry of weathering in the New Zealand Southern

                       Alps” $60,000 (Sole PI)                                                                                      

2007 - 2012    David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship $825,000

2007 - 2012    MRI-NSF “Acquisition of thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS) for Earth,      

                       environmental, and cross-disciplinary research” $847,218 (Sole PI)

2006 - 2008    EAR-NSF “The rates and mechanisms of Ca isotope transport in aquifers” $91,035

                       (Sole PI)

Teaching

GEOL 101  The Earth Revealed (Introductory Geology)

GEOL 310  Aqueous Geochemistry

GEOL 327  Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry

GEOL 440  Geomicrobiology: Principles and Applications

Professional Service

Reviewer for NSF, DOE, PRF, Science, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Chemical Geology;

    Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface; Geology;

    Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems (G3); Applied Geochemistry; and American Journal

    of Science.

Panelist for the DOE Environmental Remediation Sciences Division within the Office of Biological

    and Environmental Research