978-934-3706

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Dr. Richard Gaschnig

Assistant Professor

Graduate Coordinator

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  I specialize in geochemistry, geochronology, and petrology. 

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We now have a Q-ICP-MS, laser ablation unit, and ICP-OES at UMass Lowell!  

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Interested in doing graduate work in these fields?  Contact me. 

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Recent news:

• See photos from fieldwork last summer in Idaho and Montana here

• Coauthored a Nature Geoscience paper on nickel isotopes and the Great Oxidation Event here

• New paper G-Cubed paper on provenance research and the importance of looking beyond just detrital zircon ages here

• A blurb was recently posted on some of my past work in the EarthScope IDOR Project here

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