Lab Buzz

Fall 2021

Official launch of my new web page!
Excited to note that I am part of a paper coming out in Science on diagenesis in the Murray formation, Gale crater.
Excited to report that I have been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society (London), geology’s oldest dedicated learned society.
After surviving the pandemic unscathed and recovering from vaccinations for SARS CoV-2, we are all returning to the office and lab. While we are not yet back to full throttle, all labs are open. See here for COVID-19 information at UTK: https://www.utk.edu/coronavirus/

Lab alum, Latisha Brengman has published a cool article on silicon isotopes from the Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe, using my old PhD samples!

Brengman, L.A., Fedo, C.M., Whitehouse, M.J., Jabeen, I., and Banerjee, N.R., 2021, Evaluating the geochemistry and paired silicon and oxygen isotope record of quartz in siliceous rocks from the ~3 Ga Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe, a critical link to deciphering the Archean silica cycle: Chemical Geology.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120300
Congratulations to Jason Muhlbauer on a successful defense PhD defense, and publication of an excellent paper in Journal of Sedimentary Research on the Wood Canyon Formation braid delta complex!
Muhlbauer, J.G., and Fedo, C.M., 2020, Architecture of a fluvial dominated, wave- and tidal-influenced, pre-vegetation braid delta: Cambrian middle member of the Wood Canyon Formation, southern Marble Mountains, California, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 1011-1036.
https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.023
Welcome to Constance Cooper, Morgan Lewis, and Cat Trewhella, all of whom have joined my group during the 20-21 academic year!