Research:
Sedimentary and tectonic field geology; plate tectonics and carbonate sedimentation in the Paleoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic eras; snowball earth phenomena
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Recent and current graduate students:
Galen P. Halverson (B.Sc. 1998, University of Montana; Ph.D. 2004, Harvard University)
Assistant Professor, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Thesis: Toward a composite carbon isotopic record for Neoproterozoic seawater
Adam C. Maloof (B.Sc. 1999, Carleton College; Ph.D. 2005, Harvard University)
Assistant Professor, Princeton University, New Jersey
Thesis: Three non-uniformitarian processes that shaped Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Earth history
David S. Jones (B.Sc. 2000, Carleton College)
Francis A. Macdonald (B.Sc. 2003, California Institute of Technology)
Current field projects:
Neoproterozoic Otavi Group carbonate platform, Namibia (Hoffman)
Neoproterozoic Katakturak Dolomite and Cambrian Nanook Limestone, NE Alaska (Macdonald)
Ordovician-Silurian carbonates, Arctic Canada and Greenland (Jones)
Funding:
National Science Foundation grant OPP-0352694, Arctic Natural Science Program
National Science Foundation grant EAR-0417422, Geology & Paleobiology Program
Henry Breck Fund, Harvard University Center for the Environment
