Current People


Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Lingling Wu

Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2007

Title: Chemical weathering: theoretical models, field study in the Yellow River Basin, and laboratory study of microbially-mediated basalt and granite weathering

Current: Astrobiology Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin

Eric Kramer

B.A. Northwestern University, 2009

Project: Ca isotope fractionation during Ca-for-Na ion-exchange on clay mineral surfaces and Ca isotope geochemistry of Arctic permafrost

Joel Moore

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2008

Project: Climatic and Tectonic controls on the Ca isotope geochemistry of rivers draining the New Zealand Southern Alps

Collaborators: Chris Holmden (University of Saskatchewan) and Dave Craw (University of Otago)

Jong-Sik Ryu

Ph.D. Seoul National University, 2008

Project: Ca and Mg isotope fractionation during ion-exchange and granite weathering and Chemical weathering at the margin of the Greenland ice sheet

Collaborators: Chris Holmden (University of Saskatchewan) and Craig Lundstrom (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Zhaofeng Zhang

Ph.D. University of Science and Technology of China, 2001

Project: Mg isotope transport in the Madison aquifer, South Dakota

Collaborators: Craig Lundstrom (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Graduate Students

Greg Lehn

Ph.D. Northwestern University, expected 2015

Project: Using the major ion and isotope (Ca, Sr, and C) geochemistry of North Slope Alaskan rivers and soils to understand, monitor, and predict Arctic climate change

Former People


Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Alan Wong

B.A. Northwestern University, Expected 2009

Project: Ca isotope geochemistry of soils from the New Zealand Southern Alps

Undergraduate Students

Andrew D. Jacobson

Associate Professor • Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences • Northwestern University