Cameron Brown

• Utilized clumped isotope thermometry, stable isotope analyses, and major and minor cation analyses to model paleoclimate conditions for efforts related to resource management, preventing climate change, and environmental resilience

Skills Learned:

• Operating stable isotope ratio mass spectrometers (Thermo Scientific MAT 253, Nu Perspective 2014 model, Nu Perspective 2016 model, and Nu Perspective 2023 model)
• Operating a Varian Vista inductively-coupled optical emission spectrophotometer (ICP-OES)
• Generating models on the statistical analysis and scientific graphing software program GraphPad Prism
• Programming: Easotope
• Programming: Rstudio

• Conducted chemical analyses of interstitial water and gas samples that were collected from deep sea sediment cores in the Japan Trench to assist with modeling stress accumulation in the region's plate boundary fault
• Work shifts were 12 hours a day, 7 days per week
• Geochemical measurements are documented in a post-cruise summary report that is in the process of being published.

Skill Learned:

• Analyzing CT-Scan images of deep sea sediment cores
• Operating a Manheim-type titanium squeezer
• Operating a RX-5000i refractometer
• Performing Gran Titration with a pH electrode and a Metrohm888 Titrando autotitrator
• Operating a Gas Chromatograph Flame Ionization Detector (Agilent 7890B equipped with an autosampler Agilent Technologies 7697A Headspace Sampler)
• Sampling headspace gas from deep sea sediment cores
• Sampling void gas from deep sea sediment cores using a gas tight syringe (SGE Analytical Science; 100MR-VLLMA-GT)

• Used electrical resistivity surveys to model the flow of shallowly injected waste water in the Florida Keys, and how runoff from the waste water facility impacted freshwater systems and marine life along the island's coasts

Skills Learned:

• Operating a multinode resistivity imaging system (Syscal Pro)
• Programming: RES2DINV
• Programming: Prosys

• Conducted research in carbonate geochemistry using clumped isotope thermometry, and stable isotope analysis to reconstruct past climate conditions and improve predictive models of Earth’s future climate

Skills Learned:

• Operating stable isotope ratio mass spectrometers (Thermo Scientific MAT 253, Nu Perspective 2014 model, Nu Perspective 2016 model, and Nu Perspective 2023 model)
• Generating models on the statistical analysis and scientific graphing software program GraphPad Prism
• Programming: Easotope
• Programming: Rstudio

• Modeled seismic data collected from a global seismometer network to research the causes of slab stagnation in Australasia, and why convecting material becomes trapped in the mid-mantle

Skills Learned:

• Programming: Linux
• Programming: Matlab
• Collection data from Incorporated Research Institutions in Seismology seismometer network

Conducted research focused on computationally simulating a continuum turbulence model for coarse multiphase flow

Skills Learned:

• Programming: M-FIX
• Programming: Paraview
• Programming: Linux