Dr. Richard Gaschnig

Native of southern New Jersey

B.S., 2003, University of Delaware
M.S., 2005, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D., 2010, Washington State University

Postdocs at Washington State University, University of Maryland, and Georgia Tech

The Group

Ericka Boudreau - Ph.D.  Ericka is working on the accessory mineral geochemistry of the Idaho batholith and Challis intrusive province.​

Brianna Bowlby - M.S. is working on the provenance of the Late Paleozoic Narragansett Basin in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Alumni

Shelby Rader - postdoc. Shelby got her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and worked on the Mo and Tl isotope systems in high temperature metamorphic rocks with me. Shelby is now an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington

Kellie Gunning - M.S. Kellie worked on teh provenance of Proterozoic sedimentary rocks in the SW USA and East Antarctica.

Klementino Mato - M.S. Klementina worked on provenance of the Belt Supergroup in Idaho and Montana.

Sam Marshall - M.S. Sam worked on the Mo isotope systematics of blueschist and eclogite facies rocks in Italy and California.

Cassidy Stegner - M.S. Cass worked on the Mo isotope systematics of blueschist and eclogite facies rocks in California.

Ryan Benner - undergraduate. Ryan worked on the geochronology of the Challis volcanic field in Idaho.

Seven Greer - undergraduate. Seven worked on the geochemistry and geochronology of detrital titanite in modern river sands.

Aaron Leonard - undergraduate.  Aaron worked on the provenance of the Belt Supergroup in Idaho and Montana, using U-Pb ages and trace elements in rutile and monazite in addition to zircon. 

​Mike Mirakian - undergraduate.  Mike worked on eclogites from the western Alps, trying to determine the major minerals hosting Mo and Tl. 

Mike Spaulding - undergraduate.  Mike is worked on detrital mineral geochronology of modern river sands in Idaho.

Lucia Cheney - undergraduate.  Lucia worked on titanite geochronology of the Chilwa plutons in Malawi.

Charl du Toit - M.S. Charl worked on the geochronology of gneisses and deformed granites along the Salmon River in Idaho.

​Rick Butts - M.S. Rick worked on the provenance of the Belt Supergroup.