About
https://scholar.google.com/cit... I’m a broadly-trained geologist specializing in geomorphology, geochemistry and soil science. The focus of my research is understanding life and landscape linkages. The geochemical tools my research group and I use and develop often include cosmogenic nuclide systems, which provide powerful methods to constrain rates of erosion, carbon cycling and mineral weathering. Recently, I have shifted most of my research focus to climate adaptation and greenhouse gas reduction. One of my career goals is to remove 1 Gton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) from the atmosphere as a direct result of my and my group’s research.
I grew up on a subsistence farm in rural North Dakota. My BSci in Geosciences/Soil Science is from North Dakota State University. I went to Boston University (Masters) and Dalhousie University (PhD) to study ice sheet and glacier responses to climate change. I did postdoctoral research on soil erosion from farmlands, river erosion and mineral weathering at the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus, University of Hannover, Germany, and the German Center for Geosciences. I was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, then was recruited by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego where I was director of the Scripps Cosmogenic Isotope Lab and Associate Professor in the Geosciences Research Division and Thomas and Evelyn Page Chancellor's Endowed Faculty Fellow. I joined the Stanford faculty as an Associate Professor in 2020 as a Gabilan Faculty Fellow. I am part of the inaugural cohort of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accelerator and a Stanford Impact Lab Fellow.
Joined
February 2025
