An educational video from the very popular educational science series, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. Prof. Blair Scheone was one of the science advisors on the animation, since it’s partly based on his research work.
Check out the new textbook, to which I contributed a chapter on U-Th-Pb geochronology, entitled Geochronology and Thermochronology, by Peter Reiners et al., published by AGU and Wiley. Here is the link on…
In December 2013, a research team from the Department of Geosciences traveled to central India in order to address one of the most captivating questions in Earth history: what was the cause of the dinosaur-eradicating Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction ca. 65 million years ago? The group included Profs. Blair Schoene and Gerta Keller;…
Dr. Blair Schoene, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences of Princeton University named 2013 Clarke Medalist (https://www.geochemsoc.org/honors/awards/fw-clarke). The Clarke award honours a young scientist for a single scientific contribution or -alternatively - for…
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Visit Brenhin Keller's Github site to find freely available software, written in Julia, for carrying out the Bayesian eruption age interpretations presented in Keller et al, 2018.
Grad student Jenn Kasbohm just published her work dating the Columbia River Basalts in Science Advances. Here's a link to the Princeton Press Release, which was also…
Postdoc Ayla Pamukçu has sadly left us to another postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, following a couple months in the field in Antarctica and New Zealand. We all benefited from Ayla's skills, knowledge, and enthusiasm. All the best on your next adventure!
Former postdoc Mélanie Barboni has been a) awarded the Paul Niggli Medal (Switzerland), b) featured in a number of articles and short films about her hummingbird obsession, and c)…
Former postdoc Mélanie Barboni dated a bunch of zircons from Apollo missions to the moon in the Princeton lab. First paper just published in Science Advances. More press too:
Congrats to Dr. Kyle Samperton for a successful thesis defense! He's off to Lawrence Livermore National Lab as a research scientist in the isotope group.
Welcome (back) new postdoc Mike Eddy to the Princeton lab. Mike was Schoene's first advisee as an undergraduate ('11), just finished his PhD at MIT, and is coming back to do a postdoc
Congratulations to Dr. Brenhin Keller for finishing his PhD! He's off to UC Berkeley to start a postdoc.
Welcome Ayla Pamukcu, the department's new Hess Postdoctoral Fellow, to the radiogenic isotope lab!
Blair Schoene is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!