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Professor
201 Blessey Hall
(504) 314-2221
tor@tulane.edu
Born in Uppsala, Sweden (1962), Torbjörn moved to The Netherlands in 1969. He received his academic education, majoring in physical geography, at Utrecht University (MS, 1988; PhD, 1993). His PhD research, supervised by Henk Berendsen and Ward Koster, dealt with the Holocene evolution of the fluvial part of the Rhine-Meuse Delta. The following six years he worked on a variety of postdoctoral projects based at Utrecht University and Louisiana State University, and in 1999 he accepted a tenure-track position in earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He arrived at Tulane in 2005, three days before Katrina made landfall.
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Research Assistant Professor
204 Blessey Hall
(504) 862-3195
zshen@tulane.edu
Zhixiong joined us from the University of Liverpool where he received his PhD in geography in 2007. Zhixiong's undergraduate degree (also in geography) is from Peking University in 2002. His PhD thesis research concerned luminescence dating as well as paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism of Holocene lacustrine records. Zhixiong now applies luminescence dating to a variety of late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits along the US Gulf Coast. Many of these studies aim to better understand the evolution of low-lying coastal landscapes as a result of the interplay between sedimentation, subsidence, and sea-level rise.
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Postdoc
204 Blessey Hall
(504) 862-3195
mhijma@tulane.edu
Marc joined Tulane in 2010, after obtaining MS and PhD degrees (the latter in 2009) from Utrecht University, where he worked on the early Holocene evolution of the Rhine-Meuse Delta. Among others, he obtained a very detailed sea-level record for the time period around the 8.2 ka event. He subsequently spent a year as a postdoc in geoarchaeology at Leiden University. At Tulane, Marc is in charge of compiling a postglacial sea-level database for the US Gulf Coast; he also performs field studies aimed at refining the geochronology of the Mississippi Delta.
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PhD student
102 Stanley Thomas Hall
kjankows@tulane.edu
Krista came to Tulane to study coastal tipping points within the context of climate change. After obtaining bachelors degrees in geology and political science from Macalester College (2006) she spent a few years with Teach for America in Memphis, TN, before completing a MA degree in climate and society from Columbia University (2010). After that she spent a year in various parts of Asia as a technical advisor with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre.
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Technician
100 Blessey Hall
(504) 862-8378
jkuykend@tulane.edu
Jenny came to Tulane in the Spring of 2009 and now splits her time between field and lab work. Her background is in coastal geology, with a BS degree (2004) in Marine Science from Coastal Carolina University. She recently (2010) completed her MS thesis in the same field at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her expertise not only includes operating almost any drilling system imaginable, but also the analysis of marsh foraminifera.
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