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CSI Brown Bag Seminar

Fall 2021 Schedule

The CSI Seminar series will be held in PAIS 2540 and online, via Zoom, and will be moderated by Dr. Keith Prufer (kmp@unm.edu)

Contact Dr. Viorel Atudorei (atudorei@unm.edu) for more info or to be added to our seminar e-mail list.

All seminars begin at noon on the date listed below.

 

9/20 Seth Newsome (UNM, Biology) - Isobank Project

 

9/27 Tony Gargano (UNM, Earth and Planetary Sciences) - Traditional and non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry of planetary materials 

 

10/4 CANCELLED 

 

10/11 Sebastian Los (UNM, Earth and Planetary Sciences) - Probing the Atmospheric Water Cycle over the Tropical Oceans: Comparing Isotopes, Soundings, and Cloud Radar (REMOTE)

 

10/18 Geraldine Busquets (UNM, Biology) - Developing a reproductive detection tool for Southern Right Whales using compound specific stable isotope analysis

 

11/1 Nathan Perdue (UNM, Earth and Planetary Sciences) - Seeing Through Diagenesis at the Permian-Triassic Boundary using Triple Oxygen Isotope geochemistry 

 

11/8 Tim Beach (UT Austin) - A Synthesis of Carbon Isotope Ratios of Soil Profiles in the Maya Lowlands (REMOTE)

 

11/15 Aria Holmes (UNM, Earth and Planetary Sciences) - Quaternary climatic and hydrologic variations in the North American tropics: stable isotope analysis of organic matter from Lake Chalco, Mexico

 

11/22 Alana Robinson (UNM, Biology) - Tissue specific carbon isotope discrimination and amino acid metabolism in Southern Sea Otters

 

11/29 Conner Mertz (UNM, Biology) - Do gut microbiota supply amino acids to their mammalian hosts?

 

12/6 Alexi Besser (UNM, Biology) - Microbial Biofilms Mediate Terrestrial and Aquatic Food Web Linkages in the Middle Rio Grande

 

12/13  Emily Zovodny (UCF) - Building the seasonal round: faunal and isotopic evidence for agro-pastoral scheduling in Late Bronze Age, Lika, Croatia (REMOTE)

 

 

 

 

 

Training Programs and Courses

  • Graduate Student Assistantships: 2 graduate assistantships per semester (one in Earth & Planetary Sciences and another in Biology) are offered to train graduate students in the daily operation of instrumentation, instrument maintenance, QA/QC protocols and data reduction.
  • Courses: targeted to motivated undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in learning more about the application of stable isotope analysis in the planetary, life and medical sciences. The laboratory experience will include full access and training on how to operate and maintain isotope ratio mass spectrometers.
    • Stable Isotope Geochemistry (EPS 405): The aim of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of stable isotope geochemistry, and it’s application in the geosciences. In particular, lectures will focus on applications to paleoclimate reconstruction, metamorphic and igneous petrology, atmospheric science and meteoritics.
    • Elemental Ecology (BIO 402/502): This aim of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the application of stable isotope measurements in ecology and environmental science. Lectures will address the theory underlying the application of stable isotopes at natural abundance levels as tracers and integrators of important ecological and environmental processes.
    • ​Stable Isotope Seminar (ANTH 502, BIOL 402/502, EPS 400): The CSI brown bag seminar is offered as a one credit course in the Anthropology, Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences departments.