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Dr. Fox heads to NASA (Summer, 2020)
Allison Fox defended her doctorate (online) in June, and is headed to NASA as a Postdoctoral Researcher working in the Soluble Organics in Astromaterials (SOAL) Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Congrats, Dr. Fox! |
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Dr. Lyons heads to ExxonMobil (Summer, 2020)
Shelby Lyons defended her PhD research (online) this spring and has spent the summer wrapping up papers along with connecting with family and friends during her "fun-employment" as she waits to start her research position at Exxon this fall. Congrats, Dr. Lyons! |
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Dr. Karp heads to Yale (Summer, 2020)
Allison Karp defended her dissertation (in person!) in January, and wrapped up papers over the spring and summer. She is now a Postdoctoral Assosciate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, and working in the Global Biome Ecology Laboratory (PI Carla Staver). Congrats, Dr. Karp! |
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Kate Honored (summer, fall 2017)
Kate gave the William and Carylin Reeburgh lecture at the fall AGU meeting (sponsored by the Biogeosciences section). In addition, she was awarded the Treibs Medal from the Geochemical Society in September at the IMOG meeting, in Florence, Italy. The Treibs is the top award in the discipline, and Kate is both exceedingly grateful and totally delighted by the honor. |
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Dr. Laurence Bird Moves West (2/17)
Our best wishes to Laurence, as he heads to California to begin a postdoc with Alex Sessions at Caltech. Laurence is investigating new approaches to site-specific isotope analyses in amino acids. Congratulations, Laurence! |
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Dr. Elizabeth Denis Heads to PNNL (7/16)
Congratulations to Elizabeth, who has completed her Ph.D. requirements, and walked the big stage as a newly minted Doctor! She is headed to Pacific Northwest National Labs, where she will join our own Jim Moran, to work on soil biogeochemistry, novel analytical tools, and homeland security-related research. We will miss you and we wish you every success, Elizabeth! |
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Shelby Lyons Recognized by Shell, Hess and PSU Geosciences (5/16)
Congratulations to Shelby, who was recognized by the department with the Charles Knopf and Krynine awards. She also was awarded the Shell Oil Facilitation Award and the Hess Scholarship. Kudos!! |
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Allison Karp Recognized by GSA and PSU Geosciences (5/16)
Congratulations to Allison, who was recognized by the department with the Charles Knopf, and the Krynine awards. She also earned national recognition with the Charles A. and June R.P. Ross Research Award from the Geological Society of America. Congrats!! |
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Kate named Evan Pugh University Professor (4/16)
Kate was selected by the Penn State to be an Evan Pugh University Professor. Since 1960, only 68 professors have earned this distinction. According to the University, an Evan Pugh Professor"has displayed the courage to pioneer in his or her field, the discipline to remain at the forefront of research, and the generosity of spirit to share these accomplishments with students." Kate is deeply honored and so very grateful to all of our group members through the years-- THANK YOU! |
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Christine Doman completes her MS (7/15) and heads to Utah
Congratulations to Christine for successfully completing her MS thesis, "Stable Isotope and Lipid Signatures of Plants Across a Climate Gradient." Christine studied grasses across a the Kohala Peninsula, Hawaii, and found some rather surprising things about C4 vegetation. Christine has recently accepted a position with Friends of Alta Land Trust. We wish her every success! Angela Chung completes her MS (12/14)
Congratulations to Angela who successfully completed and defended her MS thesis, "Evaluation of Variability in Soil Organic Carbon Isotope Record and Implications for Organic Matter Preservation." Angela refined methods for isotopic analyses of small amounts of carbon in ancient soils, and suggested excessive respiratory carbon loss may have caused the PETM isotope excursion in soil carbon to be smaller than in other reservoirs. |
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Allie Baczinski joins our group (6/14)
Allie recently completed her Ph.D. dissertation at Northwestern University, and joins the team at PSU to work on our Pico-CSIA project. She comes with a lot of experience in field geology, organic geochemistry and molecular isotope analyses. Welcome Allie! |
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Heather Graham joins Goddard staff (Fall/13)
Heather had launched the next phase of her career at NASA's Goddard facility, where she is a postdoctoral fellow. Now her work really is out of this world! |
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Major Milestones for Laurence, Heather and Elizabeth (Fall/13)
Several of group members passed major milestones in the fall semester. Laurence and Elizabeth both passed the comprehensive exam, and now are happily ABD, at last. Heather successfully defended and completed her doctoral dissertation, and will formally graduate this spring. Congratulations to all! |
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Sara Lincoln joins our group (7/13)
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sara Lincoln as a postdoc at Penn State. Sara arrived, and, soon left us to do fieldwork in the Gulf of Mexico, work with collaborators in Hamburg, Germany and attend the IMOG meeting in Tenerife. We look forward to seeing more of her around the labs in October.
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Kate named AGU Fellow (7/13)
Kate was named a Fellow by the American Geophysical Union. She is one of a class of 62 scholars selected for 2013. They will be recognized this December, at the Fall AGU meeting, in San Francisco.
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Kate Freeman named Co-Editor (6/13)
Kate Freeman was recently named Co-Editor of Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She will serve a five-year term and share the post with Raymond Jeanloz, long-time Editor of the series.
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Elizabeth and Laurence are Fellows (5/13)
Congratulations to Elizabeth and Laurence! They were awarded the Hiroshi and Koya Ohmoto Graduate Fellowship in Geosciences, and the ConocoPhillips Graduate Student Fellowship, respectively. Kudos!
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Kate Freeman elected to NAS (4/13)Kate Freeman was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. She is stunned and was last seen wandering aimlessly through the labs gurgling happy nonsense words. She is also grateful to her wonderful students, friends and colleagues.
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Kate Freeman honored by college for research (4/13)
Kate Freeman was presented with the Wilson Award for Excellence in Research by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. This award is given to a faculty member in recognition of scholarly or creative excellence in the past five years.
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Students harvest awards at the 2013 Grad Colloquium (4/13)
Students in our group earned high honors at this year's colloquium for their oral presentations:
Elizabeth Denis -- 2nd Prize (Oral Presentations by a Ph.D. Student) Christine Doman -- 1st Prize (Oral Presentations by a M.S. Student) Laurence Bird -- 1st Prize (Energy Related Presentation) |
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Laurence Bird helps out in Jamaica (3/13)
The Marine Biogeochemistry students and Prof. Lee Kump spent a week at Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica over spring break. The Penn State team took a break from science and volunteered and helped paint a mural at the Discovery Bay All Age School with its students. Read more: http://www.centredaily.com/2013/04/20/3585323/meet-and-mural.html#storylink=cpy
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Cozzarelli Prize for Clay Magill's paper (3/13)
“Water, plants, and early human habitats in eastern Africa” by Clayton R. Magill, Gail M. Ashley, and Katherine H. Freeman was one of 6 papers awarded the 2012 Cozzarelli Prize by the prestigious journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The prize recognizes recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific excellence and originality.
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Tracking Hurricane Sandy with isotopes (1/13)Members of the lab group collected precipitation during the late-October deluge from Hurricane Sandy. The isotope group at the University of Utah is compiling data from across eastern US and generating isotopic maps of the storm. See the results of this exciting example of event isotope crowd sourcing:
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Laurence Bird wins the Hunt Award (9/12)
Laurence Bird is the 2012/2013 recipient of the EMS John Meacham Hunt Award in Petroleum Geochemistry for his research on methane cycling. John Hunt received his MS (1943) and PhD (1946) from Penn State, and was an international leader in petroleum geochemistry.
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Anna Henderson works for Al Franken (9/12)Former Post-doc Anna Henderson accepted a position in Fall 2012 as a Congressional Fellow in the U.S. Senate. She is working in the office of Senator Al Franken, and focusing on energy and the environment. She reports Senator Franken is very serious about his work.
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Heather Graham is a Smithsonian Fellow (9/12)Heather was awarded a 2012 CIC/Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship. She is working in collaboration with Scott Wing and Carlos Jaramillo to understand ancient forest canopies.
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Kate Freeman is innovative (7/12)
Kate Freeman was the 2012 recipient of the European Association of Geochemistry Science Innovation Award. The award is named for Heinz Lowenstam in honor of his work in biogeochemistry. Kate received the medal at the Goldschmidt Meeting in Montreal, and shared the honor with Daniel Sigman of Princeton University.
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Heather Graham occupies the universe (4/12)Heather was a finalist in the national FameLab competition, a highly selective competition in science communication and outreach. The finals were in Atlanta, GA in April, 2012. Heather's presentation was "Occupy the Universe."
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