June K Wicks

I'm in my fifth year of graduate school at Caltech, pursuing a degree in geochemistry. I am working for Professor Jennifer Jackson in Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.

As geologists, we are lucky to have the earth as our laboratory, with experiments that have been running for billions of years! The task of interpreting these results is as much inspiring as it is daunting. We get to recreate the history of our tangible world yet have so little direct knowledge of the processes that occur beyond our immediate reach.

My goal as an experimentalist is to explore a few of these processes in simplified systems and to learn, through probes of elasticity, compressional behavior, and chemistry, why our world is the way it is.

	I'm in my fifth year of graduate school at Caltech, pursuing a degree in geochemistry. I am working for Professor Jennifer Jackson in Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. As geologists, we are lucky to have the earth as our laboratory, with experiments that have been running for billions of years! The task of interpreting these results is as much inspiring as it is daunting. We get to recreate the history of our tangible world yet have so little direct knowledge of the processes that occur beyond our immediate reach. My goal as an experimentalist is to explore a few of these processes in simplified systems and to learn, through probes of elasticity, compressional behavior, and chemistry, why our world is the way it is.
	One late night at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
	News Apr, '13 -- Ge 214 has started! Check my TA page for notes and updates as the course progresses. Mar, '13 -- I have scheduled a defense date! The open seminar is May 28th, 2013, at 9am in the Salvatori room, 365 S. Mudd. Jan, '11 -- I'm now the TA for the SEM and microprobe in the GPS Division Analytical Facility. Dec, '10 -- Research highlight in Geoniews (link) (warning, it's in Dutch!) Nov, '10 -- Research highlight on the COMPRES front page (link) Sep, '10 -- Press release by Caltech on our GRL paper (link) Jun, '10 -- ASCIT teaching award, GPS Division teaching award

June K. Wicks