Fedo Lab Group
2005-present — Assistant, Associate, & Full Professor, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
1996-2005 — Assistant & Associate Professor, George Washington University
1994-1996 — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario
Advisors: Grant M. Young, H. Wayne Nesbitt
1994 — Ph.D., Virginia Tech, Advisor: Kenneth A. Eriksson
1990 — M.S., Vanderbilt University, Advisor: Julia M.G. Miller
1988 — B.S., California State University Fullerton, Advisor: John D. Cooper
Current Students
Lab Group Alumni
Jason Muhlbauer, Ph.D. (2020)
Architectural-element analysis and depositional models for pre-vegetation braidplain and braid-delta environments: Investigation of the Cambrian middle member of the Wood Canyon Formation, southeastern California and modern analogues
Link to dissertation and Data (embargoed through 2021)
Funded by NASA
Mariana Bonich-Wissink, Ph.D. (2017, Syracuse University)
Isotopic characterization of bedrock, sediments, and minerals as provenance tools: Examples from an inselberg in the Mojave Desert of SE California
Link to Dissertation and Data
Mary Eibl, M.S. (2016)
A Textural Image Analysis Study of Mars-Analog Sediment: Comparisons of 2D and 3D Textural Analysis Methods, Image Resolution, and the Effects of Shadows
Link to Thesis and Data
Funded by NASA
Chris Driscoll, M.S. (2016)
Role of sorting on the composition of siliciclastic sediment: implications for fingerprinting provenance after limited transport in an arid climate
Link to Thesis and Data
Jason Muhlbauer, M.S. (2015)
Testing for the effects of sediment sorting on detrital-zircon age spectra by sampling multiple bedforms in single fluvial channels: case studies from the Wood Canyon Formation (Terreneuvian) and Stirling Quartzite (Ediacaran), southeastern CA
Link to Thesis and Data
Funded by NSF
Latisha Brengman, Ph.D. (2015)
Distinguishing Primary from Secondary Geochemical and Silicon Isotope Characteristics of Precambrian Chert and Iron Formation
Link to Dissertation and Data
Funded by NASA
Melissa Hage, Ph.D. (2015)
Examining banded iron formation through petrographic, geochemical, and iron isotope analyses
Link to Dissertation and Data
Funded by NASA
Ian McGlynn, Ph.D. (2012)
Formation and Alteration of Basaltic Soils on Mars
Link to Dissertation and Data
Funded by NASA
Aubrey Modi, M.S. (2012)
Processes controlling the composition of first-cycle sediments deposited in an arid climate, with implications for provenance reconstruction studies
Link to Thesis and Data
Eric Hogan, M.S. (2011)
Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Analysis of Units Defining the Basal Saul Supersequence Across the Craton Margin Hinge Zone, Southeastern California
Link to Thesis and Data
William Schoenborn, Ph.D. (2010)
Geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Johnnie Formation and Stirling Quartzite, southern Nopah Range, California: Deciphering the roles of climate, tectonics, and sedimentary process in reconstructing the early evolution of a rifted continental margin
Link to Dissertation and Data
Funded by NSF
Robert Crangle, M.S. (2002)
Paleoenvironmental and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Middle Member Stirling Quartzite, a Neoproterozoic Mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate Platform, Southeastern California
Funded by ACS-PRF
Undergraduate Research Students
Robert Labean (current)
Max Miller (2014)
Mattie Friday (2013)
Alex Aust (2013)
David White (2012)
Greg Carlson (2011)
Adam Denton (2011)
Darrin Brager (2010)