Meet Our Team
GEMS grew out of Earth Sciences Mentor Match and the Graduate Admissions in the Earth Sciences programs. We merged to expand our reach and ability to provide accessible and free mentorship to any undergraduates interested in applying to graduate school or fellowships in the Earth Sciences.
Steering Committee
Christina Richardson
Christina is currently a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz studying nutrient cycling in freshwater and estuarine systems. Research Website
Araceli Serrano
Araceli is currently a Ph.D. Student at UC Santa Cruz studying soil and water biogeochemistry in agricultural regions. Research Website
Sarah Hurley
Sarah is an assistant research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She studies microbial oceanography through time. Research Website
Ben Johnson
Ben is an assistant professor at Iowa State University. He studies geosphere-biosphere interactions over Earth History. Research Website
Isabel Hong
Isabel is an assistant professor at Villanova University. She studies coastal records of geohazards. Research website
Leah Shteynman
Leah is currently a Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University studying the effects of shock metamorphism on geochronology of impact craters.
Maddie Wood
Maddie is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz studying ocean chemistry through time to understand the long term carbon cycle. Research website
Ciara Asamoto
Ciara is a PhD student in the Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies how microbial physiology can impact the stable isotopic signature of nitrogen cycling processes.
Evans Onyango
Evans is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico studying Earth’s near surface structure using dense seismic arrays. Research website
Past Team Members
Christine Bassett
Markus Petters
Marjahn Finlayson
Trang Vo
Dannielle Fougere
Yiyi Huang
Xiaonan Tai