Dr. Richard Gaschnig

The Group

Ericka Boudreau - B.S./M.S.  Ericka is working on the provenance of a Mesozoic sedimentary sequence in western Oregon.

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Kellie Gunning - M.S.  Kellie will be working on the provenance of Proterozoic sedimentary rocks in the SW USA and East Antarctica.  

Klementina Mato - M.S.  Klementina will be working on the provenance of the Belt Supergroup in Idaho and Montana.  

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Sam Marshall - M.S.  Sam will be working on Mo distribution and isotope systematics in blueschist and eclogite facies rocks from California and Italy.  

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Cassidy Stegner - M.S.  Cassidy will be working on Mo distribution and isotope systematics in blueschist and eclogite facies rocks from California and Italy.  

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Alumni 

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Shelby Rader - postdoc.  Shelby got her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and worked on the Mo, U, and Tl isotope systems in high pressure metamorphic rocks.  Shelby now has a research scientist position at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Aaron Leonard - undergraduate.  Aaron worked on the provenance of the Belt Supergroup in Idaho and Montana, using U-Pb ages and trace elements in rutile and monazite in addition to zircon. 

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Mike Mirakian - undergraduate.  Mike worked on eclogites from the western Alps, trying to determine the major minerals hosting Mo and Tl. 

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Mike Spaulding - undergraduate.  Mike is worked on detrital mineral geochronology of modern river sands in Idaho.

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Charl du Toit - M.S. Charl got his B.S. at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and worked on the geochronology of gneisses and deformed granites along the Salmon River in Idaho.

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Rick Butts - M.S. Rick got his B.S. at Bridgewater State U and worked on the provenance of the Belt Supergroup.  

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Charl and Rick in the other Lowell, August, 2018

Shelby in the lab

Ericka in SW Oregon.