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Current Lab Members
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Alon Amrani
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Alon is one of two GPS Division Prize Postdoc's, and is working with myself and Jess Adkins on compound-specific isotopic measurements of organosulfur compounds from sedimentary environments. Alon received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005 working with Zeev Aizenshtat. Alon is the one carrying the backpack in the photo.
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Sarah Feakins
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Sarah (now Feakins, formerly Ingram) is a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow studying the use of plant wax compounds as an isotopic proxy for environmental aridity. Her goal is to use this proxy to reconstruct historical changes in water balance in the American southwest. Sarah received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in June, 2006 working with Peter DeMenocal. [feakins@gps.caltech.edu]
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Ashley Jones
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Ashley (4th-year graduate student) is currently working on using hydrogen isotopes to understand the provenance of organic compounds in marine organic matter. She is a PhD student in the Environmental Science and Engineering program at Caltech. [jonesaa@caltech.edu]
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Ying Wang
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Ying (4th-year graduate student) is studying equilibrium isotope fractionations between organic molecules, water, and sediments, with the goal of providing physical-chemical data needed to interpret ancient organic D/H records. She is a PhD student in the Geochemistry option of the GPS Division at Caltech. [ywjojo@gps.caltech.edu]
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Aimee Gillespie
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Aimee is a Caltech junior who started working with us as a SURF student last summer. She is currently working part-time in the lab helping to grow cyanobacteria for D/H studies.
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Ben Aiga
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Ben is a senior at nearby Alhambra High School who volunteers in the lab two afternoons a week. Ben is constructing an annual record of changes in leaf-wax dD values as a function of temperature and rainfall.
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