Graduate Students
Isabelle Caban
M.S. Student
- iscaban@iu.edu
- 347-797-9841
- GY 3038
Advisor: Brian Yanites
Research Interests: My research interests include volcano and cascading hazards and the long-term consequences they pose.
Janelle Cook
M.S. Student
- cookjan@iu.edu
- 989-916-6349
- MSB II 443A
Advisor: Chen Zhu
Research Interests: hydrogeochemical modeling and water resources
Jayson Eldridge
M.S. Graduate Student
IGWS Lab/Field Assistant
- jayeldri@indiana.edu
- 812-856-2382
- IGWS
Advisor: Ed Ripley
Research Interests: My research focuses on nickle Isotope fractionation in the East Eagle Mine, Michigan.
Ricardo Ely
Ph.D. Student
- rcely@iu.edu
- GY 5030
Advisor: David Polly
Research Interests: Evolutionary morphology, evolutionary rates, species diversification, integration and modularity.
Jake (James) Gearon
Ph.D. Student (Edmonds Group)
- jhgearon@iu.edu
- 240-620-5681
- GY 3038
Advisor: Doug Edmonds
Research Interests: I am a sedimentologist focused on marrying big-data analytics, remote sensing, geostatistics, and sedimentology.
Diya Kamnani
Ph.D. Student
- dkamnani@iu.edu
- GY 3038
Advisor: Travis O'Brien
Research Interests: Applying statistical techniques towards understanding different atmospheric phenomenon and their dynamics.
Matthew Koelbel
MS Student
- mkoelbel@iu.edu
- GY 5032
Advisor: Jackson Njau
Research Interests: Evolution of East African hominins, specifically studying the dentognathic morphology of their fossilized skeletal remains
Thomas LaBarge
Ph.D. Student
- tlabarge@iu.edu
- GY 5030
Advisor: Jackson Njau
Research Interests: I am interested in the ecology of the large predators of the Serengeti ecosystem (Lions, Leopards, Hyenas, Crocodiles, etc.) and understanding how their diets and habits have changed over geologic time.
Heather Lawson
Ph.D. Student
- helawson@iu.edu
- IGWS
IGWS advisor: Arndt Schimmelmann
Research Interests: My research project aims to concisely define the correlations between the material properties of the mined seam and the stratigraphic risk factors for dynamic failure.
Tony Li
Ph.D. Student
- twli@iu.edu
Advisor: Ben Kravitz
Research interests: Applying my mathematical background to the study of weather and climate.
Lan Luan
Ph.D. Student
- lanluan@iu.edu
- GY 4053
Advisor: Paul Staten
Research Interests: My research focuses on studying the structure of tropical tropopause layer.
Garrett Marietta
MS Student
Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geochronology Laboratory Technician
- gmariett@iu.edu
- 812-855-3951
- IGWS 3014
Advisors: Jose Luis Antinao and Henry Loope (IGWS)
Research interests: My research is centered around the geochronology of northern Indiana's glacially derived geomorphic features and the increased precision of OSL/IRSL dating via statistical modeling.
Trenton Meier
M.S. Student
- thmeier@iu.edu
- MSB II 443B
Advisors: Simon Brassell and Ed Herrmann
Research Interests: I utilize geochemistry and other geological analyses to answer archaeological questions.
Danielle Peltier
Ph.D. Student
- dpeltier@indiana.edu
- GY 5055A
Advisors: Ed Herrmann/Jackson Njau
Research Interests: East African Rift System climate, volcanism, and landscape change, and how these ecological changes drove hominin evolution and behavior.
Kwesi Quagraine
Ph.D. Student
- ktquagra@iu.edu
- GY 4037
Advisor: Travis O'Brien
Research Interests: Atmospheric Rivers detection, attribution, and morphology using climate models and ARTMIP catalog.
Nathan Roden
MS Student
- nroden@iu.edu
- 224-612-2229
- MSBII 449A
Advisor: Shelby Rader
Research Interests: I am studying how metals, particularly those that include non-traditional stable isotopes, are remobilized and redeposited within ore-forming systems.
Charles Salcido
Ph.D. Student
- csalcido@iu.edu
- GY 5053
Advisor: David Polly
Research Interests: I am working on quantifying changes in diet and evolutionary lag in the skulls of therian carnivores.
Elizabeth Sherrill
Ph.D. Student
- sherrile@indiana.edu
- GY 4047B
Advisor: Kaj Johnson
Research Interests: Using different geophysical methods to investigate the spectrum of slip behaviors observed at subduction zones.
Alec Siurek
M.S. Student
- amsiurek@iu.edu
- GY 3038
Advisor: IGWS
Hrishikesh Sivanandan
Ph.D. Student
- hrsiva@iu.edu
- GY 4055
Advisor: Ben Kravitz
Research Interests: Hrishikesh is working on studying the impact of Atmospheric Gravity Waves on offshore wind farms using Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Trent Stegink
MS Student
- tstegink@iu.edu
- MSBII 449A
Advisor: Shelby Rader
Research Interests: Looking at plant uptake of both natural and anthropogenic metals in an attempt to biogeochemically identify various contamination sources.
Eli Van Dyke
M.S. Student
- elivandy@iu.edu
- 616-414-2008
- GY 3040
Advisor: Andrea Stevens-Goddard
Research Interests: Using analytical techniques to better understand the timing and extent of large-scale deformational earth processes.
The-Anh Vu
Ph.D. Student
- anhvu@iu.edu
- GY 4057
Advisor: Chanh Kieu
Research Interests: My research focuses on understanding the physical mechanisms underlying the global formation of tropical cyclones, using the modeling approach.
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