Department of Geology and Geophysics
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071-2000
Phone: 307-766-3386
Fax: 307-766-6679
Email: [email protected]
Professor Kim Lau (Ph.D. Stanford) recently joined us from the University of California Riverside. Kim studies the causes and consequences of environmental change on life and biogeochemical cycles, using the geochemistry of ancient sedimentary rocks. One of her objectives is to decipher the causes of anoxia in the Phanerozoic and the pattern and extent of ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic, and their links to animal evolution and extinction. She investigates changes in marine redox conditions in the context of fluctuations in other global biogeochemical cycles, and their relationship to geologic drivers such as climate change, volcanism, glaciation, and tectonics.
Kim will be teaching Biogeochemistry this semester, and will teach Geochemical Cycles and the Earth System next semester .
Department of Geology and Geophysics
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071-2000
Phone: 307-766-3386
Fax: 307-766-6679
Email: [email protected]