Research

Becca Dzombak

Wyoming 2019: In which we sample a paleosol mega-transect

When asked to describe the Wyoming desert where we worked, the first word that comes to mind would have to be 'desolate.'

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Faroese fieldwork 2019!

I just got back from a week in the Faroe Islands, a group of 18 small and sparsely-populated islands in the North Atlantic between...

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Wyoming, Banff, and Moab, oh my!

...in which I travel and accidentally make a dry ice bomb. nbd.

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MGU 2019: strengths of inter-departmental conferences

This year, I had my first experience helping run a conference. It was small - about 80 presenters from three departments here on campus -...

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Rackham International Award!

I’m so excited to announce that I have received a Rackham International Research Award! This is a University-wide grant to fund extended...

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Iceland fieldwork! (August 2018)

Hello hello! I’m writing this from Boston, where I’ll be this week for Goldschmidt. I’m pumped to present updates on my iron in modern...

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Goldschmidt 2018

Boston, as far as I could tell, comprised an assortment of adorable and expensive three-story brick buildings and a thick, impenetrable,...

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Sampling Precambrian rocks from the FAR-DEEP cores at Norway Geological Survey

I recently spent a week sampling Precambrian drill cores from the Fennoscandian shield; the drill cores from the FAR-DEEP project (part...

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Proud mentor moment!

This Wednesday, my undergraduate researcher presented her first poster, covering her preliminary results for her work on seasonality in...

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You want the pudding

Whenever I'm waiting to hear back about (read: waiting to get rejected by) grants and fellowships, I think about Amy Poehler's book Yes...

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Science requires the freedom to fail

"Creativity requires the freedom to fail." - Moby Recently, I read the above quote. He was referring to the rising cost of living in New...