Teaching

This course is about the sedimentology and geochemistry of carbonate sedimentary system from a basin-scale perspective all the way down to the microbe-mineral interactions involved in carbonate minerals precipitation and the biogeochemical signatures that carbonate sediments preserve -

Carbonate sediment components, classification, environments, carbonate geochemistry (trace elements and isotopes), carbonate reservoirs, etc.

Carbonate Sedimentology (by Tucker and Wright).

"Carbonates are born, not made." - Noel P. James

This course is about sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis. We learn about sedimentary processes and products, sedimentary basin infill and evolution-

Basin stratigraphy principles, sedimentary environments and facies, facies models, stratigraphic correlation techniques, basin analysis, etc.

Sedimentology and stratigraphy (by Nicholls).

"No vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end." - James Hutton (Theory of the Earth)

This course is about Biogeochemistry and Geobiology (Taugh as a visiting professor at Washington University, Saint Louis Fall 2020) -

Understanding element cycling on our planet due to geological, chemical and biological processes. The biogeochemical cycles, over geological time, controlled by the interaction between the Geosphere and Biosphere and how these co-evolve and influence each other.

Biogeochemistry (By Schlesinger).

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." - Carl Sagan