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Graduate Students

Mahshad Abbasian

Mahshad Abbasian

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PhD Student
ma1992@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 203
Research Interests: Seismology
Melissa Doyle Boyd

Melissa Doyle Boyd

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PhD Candidate
mboyd@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:WL-340
Research Interests: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction, U-Pb geochronology, East Africa geology
Jarrod Burges

Jarrod Burges

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PhD Student
jarrod.burges@rutgers.edu
Office:WL-321
Research Interests: machine learning, geochronology, geochemistry, and petrology
Camilla Baumer

Camilla Baumer

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Ph.D. Student
camilla.baumer@rutgers.edu
Office:WL 105
Research Interests: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Paleoclimate
Sebastian Cangahuala

Sebastian Cangahuala

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PhD Student
Research Interests: Igneous petrology, planetary science
Mazvita Chikomo

Mazvita Chikomo

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PhD Student
mmc368@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 211
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, Global Wetland Dynamics, Environmental Geology
Zakiya Chikwendu

Zakiya Chikwendu

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Ph.D. Student
zac11@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:WL-340
Research Interests: Volcanoes
Michael Di Maio

Michael Di Maio

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Ph.D. Student
mpd147@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Economic Geology, Environmental Geology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Lydia DiMattia

Lydia DiMattia

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PhD Student
lmd357@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Astrobiology, Microbial Biosignatures, Co-evolution of the Biosphere & Geosphere, Abiogenesis, Extremophile Evolution & Adaptation Mechanisms
Nishi Fatematuz Zohora

Nishi Fatematuz Zohora

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Ph.D. Candidate
fn125@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 250A
Research Interests: Paleoclimatology, Sea Level Change
Connor Gill

Connor Gill

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Master's /PhD Student
connor.gill@rutgers.edu
Office:WL-334
Research Interests: Planetary Science, Meteoritic Mineralogy, Cosmochemistry
Kate Hendrickson

Kate Hendrickson

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PhD Student
kate.hendrickson@rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 334
Research Interests: Mineral Chemistry and Resources, Mars, Remote Sensing, Machine Learning
Jacob Hickey

Jacob Hickey

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Master's /PhD Student
jrh285@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Alex Hudak

Alex Hudak

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Master's Student
alex.hudak@rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Critical Minerals, Paleoceanography, Stratigraphy
Zakaria (Zak) Jibrin

Zakaria (Zak) Jibrin

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PhD Student
zak.jibrin@rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 334
Research Interests: Biomineralogy: The controls on crystallization by particle attachment in guanine, carbonates, and others.
Levben Jukna-Parsons

Levben Jukna-Parsons

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PhD Candidate
llj38@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 336
Research Interests: Petrology, Geochemistry, Planetary Science
Ronan Keating

Ronan Keating

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PhD Student
rsk151@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 250A
Research Interests: Paleoceanography, Sedimentology, Marine Geology
Vera Lawson

Vera Lawson

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PhD Candidate
vera.lawson@rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Paleoceanography, temperature and carbonate trace element proxies
Annie Mailloux

Annie Mailloux

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PhD Candidate
gam191@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Office:WL-207
Research Interests: Hydrology, ecology
Lucas Mangold

Lucas Mangold

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lkm71@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Aldiyar Mukhatzhanov

Aldiyar Mukhatzhanov

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PhD candidate
aldiyar.m@rutgers.edu
Office:WL-243C
Research Interests: Continental margin sedimentation, deep water, climate change.
Alexandra Ostroverkhova

Alexandra Ostroverkhova

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PhD Student
ao565@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 202
Research Interests: Cosmochemistry, chondrites, iron meteorites
Parth Patel

Parth Patel

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Master's Student
pp567@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Research Interests: Seismic Interpretation, Marine Geology
Lindsay Podjasek

Lindsay Podjasek

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lindsay.podjasek@rutgers.edu
Office:WL 105
Research Interests: Moon, Mineralogy, GIS, Planetary Science, Data Science
Rafael Cottom

Rafael Cottom

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PhD Student
r.cottom@rutgers.edu
Office:WL 203
Research Interests: icy moons, planetary geophysics, glaciology, astrobiology
Olivia Rebernik

Olivia Rebernik

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Master's Student
omr21@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Ria Sarkar

Ria Sarkar

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Master's Student
ria.sarkar@rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Rieman Laboratories
Research Interests: Paleoceanography,
Paleoclimatology, science communication
Science Communication
Emily Schneider

Emily Schneider

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Master's Student
ers176@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Timothy Shamus

Timothy Shamus

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tgs59@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:Wright Labs Room 233E
Research Interests: Paleoceanography, oxygen isotopes, petrology
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

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PhD Student
adam.m.smith@rutgers.edu
Office:WL 211
Research Interests: Hydrology, Climate, Global Change
Maya Stefanelli

Maya Stefanelli

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mns127@eps.rutgers.edu
Anna Ternova

Anna Ternova

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at1187@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
David Tibbits

David Tibbits

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PhD Student
dt690@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:4108 Core Repository
Research Interests: Minerals, Drill Core, Geochemistry
Amber Treadway

Amber Treadway

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Master's Student
amt370@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Office:WL 243 D
Research Interests: stratigraphy, fluvial environments, paleontology, human evolution
Holly Valgardson

Holly Valgardson

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Master's Student
hv117@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:WL 340
Research Interests: Volcanology, igneous petrology
S. Mark Yu

S. Mark Yu

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PhD Candidate
sdy10@eps.rutgers.edu
Office:WL-233E
Research Interests: Paleoceanography, tropical paleoclimate, foraminiferal geochemistry