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From postdoc to industry

Sam will begin working as an Elemental Analysis Scientist this summer in Research & Development at Procter and Gamble in Mason, Ohio. Sam will continue working with inductively couple plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and ICP-mass spectrometry in the Analytical Chemistry department at P&G to solve a variety of problems both inside the company and externally. Congrats Dr. Carter!

 

Out of this world!

Ji-Eun Kim (JJ) will be working as a student contractor starting May 2021 with United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology to study paleo-shoreline features and history of Valles Merineris on Mars. This project is funded by NASA and will require using the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

#AGU2020

Brandon was able to present the start of his master’s research at his first AGU conference! Brandon’s research examines the accumulation of the mineral barite from a published XRF record of deep marine sediments from the equatorial Pacific. By examining the warm Miocene Climate Optimum (16.9-14 million years ago), Brandon hopes to investigate whether elevated export production was characteristic of the entire middle Miocene, or if it was confined to the later middle Miocene Climate Transition (13.8-14.3 million years ago), which Dr. Samantha Carter, a graduate of the Griffith lab, investigated in her master’s research.

 

Safety first!

Ji-Eun (JJ) Kim is hard at work in the clean lab using a cocktail of reagents (HF-HNO3-HCl-H2O2) to digest marine sediments from the Cretaceous. The goal of this work is to calibrate a high resolution XRF scan from core collected in the western Pacific. The results will be presented at the Fall Meeting of AGU in December. This work was made possible from funding provided by Friends of Orton Hall.

Brittan presents at GSA

Brittan traveled to GSA 2019 in Phoenix, AZ to present a poster. Her poster was entitled “Organomineralization of Microbialites from Storr’s Lake, San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Calcium, Carbon, and Oxygen Stable Isotope Analysis.”

This was her first time attending GSA, and was supported by Friends of Orton Hall (FOH) and On to the Future Program.

Way to go Brittan!

G’Day Mate!

Liz and Sam traveled to the southern hemisphere to present research at the 13th International Conference on Paleoceanography in Sydney.  Liz presented research on “Reconstructing the marine biological pump across Eocene hyperthermals at Shatsky Rise Site 1209” funded by NSF Award 1536630. Sam presented her research entitled “Controls on the marine barium cycle in a global biogeochemical model.” Her travel was made possible by funded from The Oceanography Society and The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship. What an adventure!