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Dr. Erin Black (she/her)

Assistant Professor

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2018 Ph.D. Chemical Oceanography MIT/WHOI Joint Program
2008 M.S. Earth Sciences Dartmouth College
2006 B.A. Geology Skidmore College


Mariya Cyriac

Ph.D. Student

2019 M.S. Hydrochemistry Cochin University of Science and Technology

2017 B.S. Chemistry St.Aloysius College Edathua – Mahatma Gandhi University

Research: Uranium in the Arctic Ocean; Radioisotope adsorption to plastics and implications for marine tracer studies.


Karine Holmes

Ph.D. Student

B.S. Geology, Meteorology Minor Iowa State

Research: Applications of radioisotopes for constraining coastal carbon budgets


Sarah Mason

UR undergraduate class of 2025

Schwartz Discover Fellow 2024

Research: Development of carbon analysis methods for environmental samples; Plastics pollution in the critical zone.


Former Lab Members:

Nuo Chen (B.S. ’24) – now pursuing a master’s at UPenn