Mud and Geochemistry
TO UNDERSTAND EARTH'S EVOLUTION
I am Mariano Remírez and I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences at George Mason University. I am part of Geoff Gilleaudeau's Lab.
My work focuses on reconstructing paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions of the Earth through studies that involve stratigraphy, petrography, SEM, and geochemical analysis of fine-grained rocks and carbonates.
I'll be moving to Denmark over the summer to start a new position at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen. There, I'll be joining the Earth History and Geobiology research group to work alongside Tais Dahl on experimental geochemistry focusing on uranium isotopes. Værsgo 🇩🇰🇩🇰!
mremirez@gmu.edu
News
New paper published in P3!
As part of our work on proxies development, we tested the salinity of several units in the Mesozoic Neuquén Basin, showing reduced salinity during the opening of the basin, and a substantial increase over time. Have a look into it!
Had a fantastic and busy week in La Plata at the Latin American and Argentine Meeting of Sedimentology. Chaired the 'Sedimentology of Black Shales', as well as a special session for undergrad and graduate students. Honored to give a keynote talk about salinity proxies on the lacustrine session. Thanks to everyone for making it an incredible week! See you in Córdoba!
The session 'The stratigraphic record of paleoenvironmental variation in epeiric basins' in the past IMS in Dubrovnik that we organized was really exciting! Thanks to all the participants and presenters, and special thanks to the co-chairs Miquel, Ernesto Schwarz, Chelsea, and Orsolya.