Episode summary introduction: In this episode of Storybook Earth, Jess shares the stories of zircons and why they have become a cornerstone of geochronology, or, the study of geologic aging. Find out how Jess discovered her passion for zircon geochronology, what zircons are, where you can find them, and why they can be compared to the […]
Kirk Schleiffarth is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Northern Arizona University (2014-present). He has experience studying a variety of volcano-tectonic provinces with a variety of techniques. In 2010, he spent several months monitoring and cataloging volcanic activity at Colima volcano in Mexico. From 2012-2014, he investigated the Eocene Challis Volcanic Field in central Idaho for […]
Jesse Walters recently received a MS from Boise State University where he worked with Dr. Matthew Kohn on a NSF funded project studying Himalayan tectonics. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Maine, and studies sulfur isotope systematics during subduction. We are all taught the scientific method at some point: a formulaic […]
Sarah Falkowski did her Geosciences BSc studies at the University of Bremen, Germany, and her MSc studies at the universities of Bremen, Germany, and Waikato, New Zealand. Since her masters thesis, she focuses her research on the influences of tectonics and climate-driven surface processes on active orogens. She quantifies those processes through thermo- and geochronologic […]
Simon Pendleton is a PhD student at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. You can read more about his research here. I’m not sure I’ve ever been this cold. Ever. Our research team (Drs. Gifford Miller, Nicolas Young, Jason Briner and PhD students Sarah Crump and myself) is […]
