Department of Earth and Space Sciences | University of California, Los Angeles
Education
- Ph. D., Physical Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 2010
Thesis: Photochemical and Dynamics Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions of CO2
Advisors: Mitchio Okumura and John M. Eiler - B. A. with Highest Honors, Chemistry, Oberlin College 2004
Thesis: Kinetics Studies of the Atmospheric Oxidation of Alkynes
Advisor: Matthew J. Elrod
- Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Science, Rice University2015 –
- Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow, National Academy of Sciences2014
- Assistant Researcher, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA 2013 – 2014
- NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA 2011 – 2013
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, USC 2010 – 2011
- Graduate Research Assistant, Caltech 2005 – 2009
- Research Assistant, Oberlin College 2002 – 2004
- US/France REU Research Student, University of Paris VI 2003
- Summer Research Intern, NICHD, The National Institutes of Health 2001
- Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences2014
- NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship 2011 – 2013
- Sid Benson Student Poster Award, ACS Division of Physical Chemistry 2009
- Davidow Graduate Research Fellowship in Environmental Science 2006 – 2008
- Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi 2004
- Harry N. Holmes Medal for High Achievement in Chemistry, Oberlin College 2004
- Lubrizol Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Talk 2004
- Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Award, ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry 2003
- Frank Fanning Jewett Award for Achievement in Chemistry, Oberlin College 2002
- John Fredrick Oberlin Scholar, Oberlin College 2000 – 2004
- New constraints on marine oxygen cycling.
National Science Foundation OCE-1436590, 9/2014 – 8/2017: $203,480. Lead PI (Collaborative Research). - High-precision triple-isotopologue analysis of N2.
National Science Foundation EAR-1349182, 9/2014 – 8/2016: $189,999, lead PI (Collaborative Research). - EAR-PF: ‘Clumped’ isotope geochemistry of 18O2 for paleohydrology and paleobiology.
National Science Foundation EAR-1049655. 3/2011 – 3/2013: $170,000, sole PI.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC2014
- Rice University, Houston, TX2014
- University of California, San Diego, CA2014
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD2013
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD2013
- V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Florence, Italy (Keynote)2013
- University of Chicago, Chicago, IL2013
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT2013
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA2012
- Carnegie Institution of Washington2010
- University of California, Berkeley2009
- University of Southern California2009
- V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland2009
- California Institute of Technology (Ge 10 guest lecture)2009
- International Workshop on Clumped Isotopes, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland2014
- V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, QC2012
- International Symposium for Isotopomers, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC2012
- Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT2012
- International Workshop on Clumped Isotopes, Imperial College, London, UK2011
- V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic2011
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA2010
- Workshop on Clumped Isotopes, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington2010
- American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA2008
- Session Chair, Stable Isotopes in the Atmosphere2012
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA - Session Chair, Links between CO2 and climate: Carbon-cycle feedbacks over time2011
V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic - Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Rapid Communications in Mass
Spectrometry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NSF-EAR Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry - Scribe, NSF Workshop for Future Directions in Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry2010
- Guest Judge, Southern California Edison middle school “Edison Challenge”2010
- Chair, Everhart Lecture Series Committee, Caltech2008 – 2009
Member, Everhart Lecture Series Committee, Caltech2005 – 2008 - Restaurant Editor, Graduate Student Council, Caltech2005 – 2008
- Chemistry Option Representative, Graduate Student Council, Caltech2004 – 2006
- Senior Resident Assistant, Oberlin College2003 – 2004
Resident Assistant, Oberlin College2002 – 2003