Faculty
Marty Grove
Professor Marty Grove serves as the Stanford's Co-Director of the joint USGS-Stanford SHRIMP-RG ion microprobe laboratory and oversees all thermochronology laboratories. Grove is leading a new School of Earth Sciences initiative to develop state-of-the-art thermochronology capabilities at Stanford. This includes development of a new, fully automated argon extraction line for our existing MAP216 mass spectrometer and construction of a new extraction line for a Nu Noblesse mass spectrometer that will be delivered and commissioned in early 2009 for 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology. Grove also leads efforts to develop laser ablation, multicollector, ICP-MS capabilities at Stanford.
Kate Maher
Assistant Professor Kate Maher is leading a new School of Earth Sciences initiative to develop a new ICP-MS Laboratory that will feature a Nu Plasma 1700 multicollector ICP-MS instrument, a Nu single collector high resolution ICP-MS machine, and a state-of-the-art clean room complex for isotopic, geochemical, and geochronologic applications.
George Hilley
Assistant Professor George Hilley directs the Cosmogenic Radionuclide Facility. This facility specializes in dating near surface erosional processes and landform development.
New Faculty
The school of Earth Sciences is currently searching for a new faculty member whose research focuses upon the broad areas of geochronology, petrology, and geodynamics.
USGS Scientists
Joe Wooden
Dr. Joe Wooden serves as the U.S.G.S.'s Co-Director of the joint SHRIMP-RG laboratory and specializes in all aspects of geochronologic, isotopic, and petrologic applications and technique development with this instrument.
Frank Mazdab
Dr. Frank Mazdab specializes in the development of new petrologic and mineralogical applications for the SHRIMP-RG.
Brad Ito
Brad Ito is the electronics wizard who keeps the heinously complex innards of the SHRIMP-RG and other instruments humming.
Research Scientists
Trevor Dumitru
Dr. Trevor Dumitru directs the Fission Track Thermochronology Laboratory. This facility specializes in thermochronologic analysis of tectonic, structural, and sedimentary processes within the upper 2-10 km of the Earth's crust, generally in conjuction with (U-Th)/He analyses. He also directs our shared facilities for sample preparation.
Bettina Wiegand
Dr. Bettina Wiegand directs the TIMS Laboratories. Her research emphasizes the application of isotopic data to environmental, ecosystem, and paleoclimate analysis.
Collaborating Local Geochronology Research Groups
Professors Steve Graham, Don Lowe, and Jim Ingle, and Assistant Professor Jonathan Payne direct programs in sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleontology that frequently involve geochronologic research.
We enjoy close collaborations with Jeremy Hourigan's new U-Th-He Laboratory at UC-Santa Cruz.
We enjoy close collaborations with the 40Ar/39Ar Laboratory at the USGS-Menlo Park.