Dr. Richard Gaschnig

The Group

Ericka Boudreau - B.S./M.S.  Ericka will be working on a Mesozoic sedimentary sequence in western Oregon.

Charl du Toit - M.S. candidate.  Charl got his B.S. at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and is working on the age and origin of gneiss complexes along the Salmon River in Idaho.

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Rick Butts - M.S. candidate.  Rick got his B.S. at Bridgewater State U here in the Commonwealth.  He's working 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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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 and Rick in the other Lowell, August, 2018

Shelby in the lab

Ericka in SW Oregon.