Meet the Team
Jill McDermott
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Corinne LaViolette
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Jill is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator. She helps generate creative ideas that are supported by good data produced by the geochemistry team.
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Corinne is the Director of Instrumentation in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. She provides technical and analytical support for various projects and research spaces, including the McDermott geochemistry lab.
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Tiffany Baumann
Tiffany is an Earth and Environmental Sciences major. In her senior honors thesis, Tiffany is using inorganic chemistry to test a new model for hydrothermal fluid circulation at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges. Tiffany has also worked on trace metal digests, and is well versed with running major ion analyses on our ion chromatograph, which she used to investigate the salinity of the Lehigh River and its tributaries during a summer student internship through the STEPS Environmental Initiative .
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Talia Rodkey
Talia is an IDEAS major. Her Integrated degree in Engineering, Arts, and Science has foci in Biological Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences. In her senior honors thesis, Talia seeks to constrain the redox of sulfur-bearing species in a submarine arc volcano. Talia has also interfaced a new sample introduction line on the STEPS Picarro laser spectrometer, ran sensitivity tests, and measured carbon isotopes on hydrocarbon-rich field samples.
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Meet the lab alumni |
Grant Loescher
Grant earned his B.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2018. In his senior honors thesis, he used organic and inorganic chemistry to constrain the subseafloor temperature of vent fluid formation at Pescadero Basin, in the Gulf of California. His goal was to constrain metal mobility and investigate the processes occuring during the formation of marine petroleum and ore deposits. Grant is now pursuing his M.S. at Arizona State University.
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