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Snell, Katie

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  • Dr. Snell's research investigates sedimentary and geochemical records of terrestrial paleoenvironmental change. She is particularly interested in learning how terrestrial environments respond to rapid climate change events and in using paleoclimate records to reconstruct elevation of mountain ranges in the past. Currently, much of her research focuses on the paleoclimate and tectonic development of the western United States during the last 100 million years.

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  • sedimentology, paleoclimatology, terrestrial paleoenvironmental change, tectonics, paleoelevation, stable isotope geochemistry

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  • GEOL 1020 - Dodos, Dinos, and Deinococcus: The History of a Habitable Planet
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
    Examines how the solid, fluid, and living Earth interact, how changes in the oceans, atmosphere and life reflect that interaction over the immensity of geologic time, and how the rock record is analyzed to reconstruct the co-evolution of Earth and life.
  • GEOL 4380 - Fundamentals of Stable Isotope Geochemistry
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2022
    This course teaches students the fundamental principles of stable isotope fractionation during physical and biological processes, and the application of these behaviors to a wide range of important geologic questions. The course will use classic case studies from the geologic record to illustrate these principles. Same as GEOL 5380.
  • GEOL 4675 - Stable Isotopes in Paleoclimate and Paleoecology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Explores the use of stable isotope geochemistry for research questions in paleoclimatology and paleoecology. Covers physical and biological drivers of isotopic fractionation, systematics and applications of light elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur and boron and some less traditional isotopic systems. Applications include marine and terrestrial paleoclimate proxies and some uses for ecology and paleoecology. Same as GEOL 5675.
  • GEOL 5380 - Fundamentals of Stable Isotope Geochemistry
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2022
    This course teaches students the fundamental principles of stable isotope fractionation during physical and biological processes, and the application of these behaviors to a wide range of important geologic questions. The course will use classic case studies from the geologic record to illustrate these principles. Same as GEOL 4380.
  • GEOL 5675 - Stable Isotopes in Paleoclimate and Paleoecology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
    Explores the use of stable isotope geochemistry for research questions in paleoclimatology and paleoecology. Covers physical and biological drivers of isotopic fractionation, systematics and applications of light elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur and boron and some less traditional isotopic systems. Applications include marine and terrestrial paleoclimate proxies and some uses for ecology and paleoecology. Same as GEOL 4675.
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