People

Faculty

Laura Crossey (Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences): Diagenesis, Organic, Aqueous, and Low-Temperature Geochemistry.  Laura is also on the faculty of IGERT,the interdisciplinary freshwater sciences Ph.D. program jointly offered by UNM and The University of Alabama.  To visit Laura's web page, click here.

John Bloch (Adjunct Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences): Shale Petrology, Clay Mineralogy, Sedimentary Geochemistry.

Doctoral Students

Armand Groffman:  Armand is studying iron and manganese oxidation-reduction systematics in the Rio Calaveras aquifer system. Groundwater geochemistry, combined with hydrogeology and biology, is providing information about the role of microbial reactions in the vadose and saturated zones.

Angela McLain:  Angela is looking at strontium isotopes in pedogenic carbonates in order to evaluate sources of Ca in desert soils. The objective of the study is to evaluate how the relative contributions of dust and parent material to desert soils change with climate and soil age. To see more, take a look at Angela's own web page.

Bethany Burnett: Bethany is part of IGERT, the Freshwater Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program.



Masters Students

Michelle Kearney

Susan Block: Susan is working on the chemistry of shallow groundwater in natural (flooded) and regulated (no longer flooded) locations in the Middle Rio Grande bosque.

David Vinson: David's work focuses on the redox chemistry of iron, manganese, sulfur, and oxygen in water and sediments of the historic floodplain of the Rio Grande at Belen, N.M.

Lee Anne Scott



Undergraduate Students

Alaina Pershall (UNM/NASA PURSUE Program)

Crystal Dotson (UNM/NASA PURSUE Program)


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