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Associate 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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Postdoc
204 Blessey Hall
(504) 862-3195
syu2@tulane.edu
Shiyong moved "down south" from the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he published extensively on a wide variety of subjects in Quaternary science. Shiyong's PhD in Quaternary geology (2003) is from Lund University, where he studied sea-level change in an isostatically rebounding setting in SE Sweden. His previous degrees are from Nanjing University (MS, 1997) and the Ocean University of Qingdao (BS, 1991). His research includes field studies, as well as geophysical modeling, of Gulf Coast Holocene sea-level change.
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Postdoc
204 Blessey Hall
(504) 862-3195
li@tulane.edu
Frank came to Tulane from Penn State University where he carried out his first postdoctoral project, working on Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events. He received his PhD from Lehigh University (2005) studying a variety of proxies from lake sediments. He has a broad background in structural geology and tectonics with previous degrees from Nanjing University (BS, 1996) and the University of Hong Kong where he received his Master's in 2000. Frank currently works on the sea-level signature of the 8.2 ka cold event.
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Postdoc
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 Gulf Coast.
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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 is currently finishing 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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MS student
126D Blessey Hall
(504) 862-3277
phu@tulane.edu
Ping was trained as a mineralogist and is now transitioning into Quaternary science. She received her BS degree in geology at Nanjing University (2006) and her current research focuses on Gulf Coast sea-level change.
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