Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Research Statement

Dr. Stevens Goddard combines fieldwork with analytical techniques such as thermochronology and geochronology to understand the timing and rates of Earth processes over geologic time. As a sedimentologist, she investigates these questions from a sedimentary basin’s perspective, using information preserved in eroded material to interpret the geologic evolution of source areas.

Her recent work has focused on understanding the roles and potential feedbacks between climate and tectonics and lithospheric scale processes on erosion, sediment routing, and landscape evolution. Her research includes work understanding orogenic systems as well as the formation of intracratonic basins and their relationship with plate boundary processes.

Dr. Stevens Goddard directs and manages the fission track lab at Indiana University.