California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Ph.D., Geochemistry
2010 - current
Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia College
B.A., Earth Science, 20 May 2009
Thesis: Gamburtsev Mountain formation, cooling, and exhumation modeling through low-temperature thermochronology of detrital grains from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica
Advisor: Professor Sidney Hemming, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Optical Mineralogy Lab
Professor George Rossman, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
California Institute of Technology
September 2011 - December 2011
Teaching Assistant, Alternative Energy Resources
Professor David Walker, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
September 2008 - December 2008
Research Experience
Staff Research Assistant, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
40Ar/39Ar dating, mineral separation, mass spectrometer maintenance, MySQL database management, computer systems management, MATLAB, and GIS
June 2009 - June 2010
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
(U-Th)/He dating, 40Ar/39Ar dating, mineral separation, MATLAB, and GIS
April 2007 - May 2009
Research Assistant, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
mineral separation and sample preparation
September 2006 - April 2007
Publications
Cox, S.E., K.A. Farley, and S.R. Hemming (2012), Insights into the age of the Mono Lake Excursion and magmatic crystal residence time from (U‐Th)/He and 230Th dating of volcanic allanite, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volumes 319-320, Pages 178-184
Cox, S.E., S.N. Thomson, P.W. Reiners, S.R. Hemming, and T. van de Flierdt (2010), Extremely low long-term erosion rates around the Gamburtsev Mountains in interior East Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37
van de Flierdt, T., S.R. Hemming, S.L. Goldstein, G.E. Gehrels, S.E. Cox (2008), Evidence Against a Young Volcanic Origin of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26
Conference Abstracts
Zimmerman, S.H., E.A. Steponaitis, S.R. Hemming, X. Wang, S.E. Cox, and G.A.H. Ali (2010), Improvements on the late Pleistocene chronology at Mono Lake, CA from radiocarbon dating of sequential dissolution steps, GSA 2010 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Ali S., S. R. Hemming, T. Torgersen, M. Q. Fleisher, S. E. Cox, and M. Stute (2009), K-Ar constraints on fluid-rock interaction and dissolution-precipitation events within the actively creeping shear zones from SAFOD cores, AGU 2009 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Cox, S.E., S.R. Hemming, and E.A. Steponaitis (2009), Heavy Mineral Assemblages in volcanic ashes from the Mono Basin, California, GSA 2009 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Ali, G.A.H., S.H. Zimmerman, S.R. Hemming, S.E. Cox, S.L. LeRoy, E.A. Steponaitis, and X. Wang (2009), Chronology of High Lake Levels During the Last Glacial Cycle, GSA 2009 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Thomson, S.N., S.R. Hemming, P.W. Reiners, and S.E. Cox (2009), Revealing the Subglacial Erosion and Landscape Evolution History Below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Using Detrital Thermochronology, GSA 2009 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
Cox, S.E., P.W. Reiners, S.N. Thomson, G.E. Gehrels, S. Nicolescu, S.R. Hemming, T. van de Flierdt, S.L. Goldstein, and S.A. Brachfeld (2008), Triple-Dating of Detrital Apatites and Zircons from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, Goldschmidt 2008 Conference.
van de Flierdt, T., S.R. Hemming, G.E. Gehrels, S.E. Cox, and S.L. Goldstein (2008), Sedimentary Provenance Evidence for the Origin of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, Antarctica, Goldschmidt 2008 Conference.
Cox, S.E., P.W. Reiners, S.N. Thomson, G.E. Gehrels, S. Nicolescu, S.R. Hemming, T. van de Flierdt, S.L. Goldstein, and S.A. Brachfeld (2008), Hints about the formation of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains from triple-dating detrital apatite and zircon, SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference.
Cox, S.E., S.R. Hemming, P.W. Reiners, S. Nicolescu, S.N. Thomson, G.E. Gehrels, T. van de Flierdt, S.L. Goldstein, and S.A. Brachfeld (2007), Isotopic and Thermochronological Evidence for Origin and Erosion History of the Gamburtsev Mountains, East Antarctica, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T23C-1543.
Cox, S.E., S.R. Hemming, P.W. Reiners, S. Nicolescu, S.N. Thomson, G.E. Gehrels, T. van de Flierdt, S.L. Goldstein, and S.A. Brachfeld (2007), Detrital apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He evidence for early formation and slow erosion of the Gamburtsev Mountains, East Antarctica: in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Extended Abstract 193, 4 p.