Professional preparation

2006-2008         California Institute of Technology, Postdoc in Geology and Geochemistry

Ph.D., 2006        Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geology

B.S., 2001          University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences and Economics

Appointments

2014-present      Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

2008-2014         Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

2006-2008         Geology Option Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Geological and Planetary

                          Sciences, California Institute of Technology

2002-2006         Research/Teaching Asst., Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT

2001-2002         MIT Presidential Fellow

1999-2000         Science Opportunity Fellow, Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina

HONORS+AWARDS

Bassett Distinguished Teaching Award (2013)

Fellow of the Geological Society of America (2013)

Donath Medal, Geological Society of America Young Scientist Award (2012)

U.S. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium invitee (2012)

NSF Early Career PI invitee to White House (2011)

NSF Geosciences Directorate Distinguished Lecturer (2011)

NSF CAREER Award (2010-2015)

Geological Society of America Bulletin Exceptional Reviewer (2009)

Geosphere Exceptional Reviewer (2009)

California Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2007)

MIT Presidential Fellowship (2001-2002)

Cornell University Sage Fellowship (2001, declined)

Phi Beta Kappa (2001)

UNC Davies Scholar (1997-2001)

Op White Prize in Geological Sciences, UNC (2001)

Ingram Grant in Geological Sciences, UNC (2001)

North Carolina Science Opportunity Fellowship (1999)

GRANTS

NSF Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics Program EAR-1349279. “Impact of Quaternary megafloods on erosion of the Tsangpo River gorge, southeastern Tibet.”

4/15/2014 to 4/14/2017: $224,001, sole PI.

NSF Geobiology & Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program EAR-1252064 & 1342695. “Collaborative Research: Interpreting clumped isotope temperatures and d18O records from pedogenic carbonate: influence of climate, seasonality, and elevation.”

4/2013 to 3/2015: $170,709 (UW portion), Co-PI with Greg Hoke (Syracuse University).

NSF Instrumentation and Facilities Program EAR-1156134. “Early Career: acquisition of a gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometer for research and education in tectonics and paleoclimate.”

9/2012 to 8/2013: $365,362, sole PI.

NSF Tectonics Program EAR-0955309. “CAREER: The detrital record of focused rock uplift and exhumation, Northeast Indian Himalaya.”

5/2010 to 4/2015: $487,197, sole PI.

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant #49704. “The use of carbonate ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry to quantify temperatures of burial and diagenesis from 0-200ºC.” 

1/2010 to 12/2011: $100,000, sole PI.

Royalty Research Fund grant #65-2771. “Development of a sample preparation system for measurement of clumped isotopes in carbonate for paleoclimate and paleoelevation reconstructions.” 

3/1/2010 to 2/28/2011: $35,503, sole PI.

invited seminars+talks 

2015    scheduled: University of Oregon

2015    scheduled: Syracuse University

2015    scheduled: Weeks Lecture, University of Wisconsin Madison

2014    GSA annual meeting, Keynote

2014    University of Idaho

2014    4th Clumped Isotopes Workshop Keynote, ETH Zurich

2014    Goldschmidt Annual Meeting

2014    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2014    GSA Penrose Conference Keynote

2014    UC San Diego

2014    UCLA

2013    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2013    GSA Pardee Keynote Symposium

2013    University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology

2013    Northwest Geological Society Research Symposium

2013    University of Washington, Tacoma

2012    Gold Medal Lecture, Geological Society of America National Meeting

2012    Lehigh University

2012    University of Arizona, GeoDaze Keynote Lecture

2012    University of Southern California

2012    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2012    Brigham Young University

2012    Western Washington University

2011    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2011    Penn State University

2011    NSF Geosciences Directorate Distinguished Lecture 

2011    Dickinson College, Potter Lecture, and Department Seminar

2011    University of California Santa Barbara

2010    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2010    GSA Keynote Lecture, Structural Geology & Tectonics Division

2010    Central Washington University

2010    Washington State University

2009    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2009    Yale University

2009    University of Colorado at Boulder

2009    AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada

2009    University of Wyoming

2009    University of Chicago

2008    University of Oregon

2008    University of Montana

2008    University of Southern California

2007    University of Washington

2007    California Institute of Technology

2007    California State University Long Beach

2006    Arizona State University

2006    Georgia Institute of Technology

2006    California State University Northridge

2006    Colorado College

2006    ExxonMobile Exploration Company Technical Exchange

2005    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2005    Dickinson College

Link to Publications

service

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Judge, Student Presentation Awards, Goldschmidt Meeting, Montreal, Canada (2012)

Judge, Outstanding Student Presentation Awards, AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransico, CA (2011)

Session co-convener, “Terrestrial Sedimentary Record of Cenozoic Topography, Paleoclimate

         and Paleoenvironments” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA (2011)

Conference co-organizer, International Clumped Isotope Geochemistry Workshop,

        Quaternary Research Center, Seattle, WA (2010)

Session co-convener, “Cryptic uplift of the interior of the U.S. Cordilleran

        orogen” GSA Annual Meeting, Denver CO (2010)

UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATIONS

Program on Climate Change (PCC) Board (2011-2012)

Quaternary Research Center, Resources Committee (2014-2015)

ESS Chair Search Committee, College of the Environment (2014)

Quaternary Research Center (QRC) Resources Committee (2014-)

QRC Distinguished Lecture Series Committee (2014-2015)

UW New Assistant Professors Discussion panel (2014)

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES

Executive committee (2009-2010), Curriculum committee (2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2014), Scholarships & Awards committee (2008-2009); Colloquium (2010-2011); Faculty search committee (2012); Admissions committee (2011-2012); ESS Research Gala awards committee (2010; 2013); Applied MS program Assessment Committee (2014); Bassett Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award committee (2014); Johnson Hall Space Planning Committee (2014)

PEER REVIEW

Editorial Board for Geology (2013-)

Associate Editor, Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf; 2013-)

Panelist, NSF EAR Geomorphology and Landuse Dynamics (2014)

Panelist, NSF EAR Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry (2011)

Panelist, NSF EAR Tectonics (2010)

Referee, National Science Foundation; European Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy

Reviewer, Nature, Science, PNAS, Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Tectonics, GSA Bulletin, Geosphere, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geological Society of London, Chemical Geology, Applied Geochemistry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Paleontological Society Papers

OUTREACH - EDUCATION & DIVERSITY

Teacher professional development, UW in the High School ESS 101 (NSF-CAREER Project; 2010)

Lab field trip host for ~200 students, Mercer High School and Global Connections High School (2014)

Speaker, UW ADVANCE workshop on CAREER awards (2013)

Job shadow host, Tahoma Senior High School (2012)

Speaker, UW ADVANCE workshop on Peer Mentoring (2011)

Panelist, Conversations on Defining Diversity, UW College of the Environment (2011)

Interview, 2nd grade project on careers (geologist), Gainesville, FL (2011)

Science field trip host, The Nature School, Seattle WA (2011)

Activity leader, UW ESS Bring a Child to Work Day (2010)

Science field trip host, University Prep Middle School, Seattle WA (2010)

Panelist, 18th Annual Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Conference (2009)

Mentor, Women Mentoring Women Program, Caltech (2007-2008)

Ask a Scientist Program, Hillview Middle School, Whittier CA (2007-2008) 

Panelist, Academic Careers Workshop, Caltech (2007)

courses taught

ESS 211: Physical Processes of the Earth - Autumn 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014

ESS 418: Geoscience Communication - Winter 2011, 2012, 2015; Spring 2013

ESS 480/580: Advanced Methods in Isotope Geochemistry - Winter 2010, 2013, 2014

ESS 590: Tectonics and Climate - Spring 2009

ESS 595a: Tectonics and Erosion - Spring 2010 (Himalayan Tectonics), Spring 2011 (Thermochronology), Spring 2012 (Detrital record of Himalayan orogenesis); Winter 2014 (River incisio)

ESS 595b: Research Methods