We recently welcomed a new postdoctoral fellow to the lab. Morgan Raven comes to us from the California Institute of Technology, where she recently defended her PhD thesis under Alex Sessions. We look forward to seeing Morgan’s next projects in the Fike lab!
In other news, the biogeochemistry group had a great weekend in Cincinnati for the fifth annual Midwest Geobiology conference. Many thanks to the folks at the University of Cincinnati for organizing the event.
Our lab group said goodbye last Friday to our postdoctoral fellow Cole Edwards, who has gone on to bigger and better things as an assistant professor of carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy at Appalachian State Univeristy in North Carolina. He first joined our group in August 2014 and researched Paleozoic environmental and biogeochemical changes. We wish Cole all the luck in his new position!
Joining us as a postdoctoral fellow from Harvard University is Maya Gomes. Maya focuses on how the cycling of elements through the ocean and atmosphere regulates climate and habitability. We welcome Maya and are eager to see what she will accomplish.
Maya Gomes
Cole Edwards
After eight years at Wash U, we wish Mac McCay all the best as he moves on to a position as project scientist with TRC Solutions. Mac started working at Wash U in April 2008 with Bob Criss’ lab, and became manager of the Fike lab when it began in January 2009.
The illustrious job of lab manager is now being passed to former tech Stephanie Moore. We also wish her the best of luck in her new position!
Congrats to Roger Bryant for defending his research paper, “Depositional controls on the S-isotopic composition of framboidal pyrite in marine sediments” on March 24, 2016. Both of our grad students can hopefully now breathe easy with their orals behind them.
Congratulations to Jocelyn Richardson for passing her orals on March 4, 2016. She successfully defended her research paper, “Correlating the Spatial Distribution and Speciation of Sulfur associated with Sedimentary Carbonate Strata, with its Isotopic Composition using Coupled X-ray Spectromicroscopy and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry.”
Cole is the new postdoc joining the lab, fresh off finishing his Ph.D. at Ohio State. Cole is interested in better constraining environmental and biogeochemical evolution over the Paleozoic.
Welcome Cole!
This fall we have two new graduate students joining the lab: Jocelyn Richardson and Roger Bryant, both recent graduates from St. Andrews in Scotland.
Welcome to you both!
We are sad to see Dr. Catherine Rose, the department’s inaugural Fossett Postdoctoral Scholar, depart our lab after two very productive (and enjoyable) years. Catherine will begin her new position as an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin this fall.
You will be sorely missed!
Congrats to our graduating seniors! We will miss lab members Dan Johnson, Beth Hoagland, Chris Thom, and Emily Wills.
Congrats to Dan Johnson & Beth Hoagland, who were both just awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to attend graduate school. In the fall, Dan will be heading to Caltech and Beth will be going to Penn State. Both pictured below, enjoying their spring break in the Apennines.
Congrats!
