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Dr. Alyssa L. Abbey
Assistant Professor California State University Long Beach email: [email protected] Research interests
Mountain building processes, continental rifting, and the relationships between tectonics and landscape change using thermo- / geo-chronology.
& Geoscience education innovation and pedagogy specifically related to field experiences and student context factors Students interested in doing master's research with me should check out the Earth Science Department page for application details
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- (May 2025) The GSA Rocky Mountain Section meeting in UT was a wonderful conclusion to our cohort based research in CO. Dr. Alex Tye and I wrked with seven undergraduates who each presented their own sub-projects at the meeting. Thanks to an AGeS-DiG award for partial funding on this project
- (January 2025) Dr. Kendra Murray and I received an AGeS-TRaCE grant to continue building community resources for thermal hisorty modeling of low-Temperature thermochronology data!
- (July 2024) Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an NSF CAREER award from the Tectonics Division!
- (July 2024) Awesome field season in Colorado with our new AGeS cohort of undergrads from CSULB and UT! We are rift growth and basin connectivity and how rivers evolve around active faults.
- (February 2024) New paper! Tracing short-lived hydrothermal circulation systems and water–rock interactions around small-scale intrusions
- (December 2023) Excited to announce that Dr. Alex Tye and I received a collaborative AGeS-DiG grant to increase participation of eligible and 1st-Gen. students in geochronology research! Cohort building begins in March 2024!
- (September 2023) Thermo2023 was in Riva del Garda Italy! Huge turn-out for our workshop on thermal history modeling in QTQt (co-leads M. Wildman and K. Gallagher), and I was part of an informative panel discussion following up on the white paper published after Thermo2021.
- (August 2023) Honored to host the Mentorship Component of the Gordon Research Seminar on Geochronology as the discussion leader for the session: Professional Development for Early-Career Geoscientists. The GRS was followed by a wonderful GRC on Geochronology!
- (July-August 2023) Productive and exciting field season in the Argentina eastern Precordillera! New Masters' student Vincent Ruiz, joined myself and collaborator Dr. Darryl Granger from Purdue. We are exploring tectonically driven erosion and sedimentation with cosmogenic nuclides and magnetostratigraphy
- (July 2023) As always the Earth Educators Rendezvous was amazing! Wonderful people and workshops. Check out two poster presentations we gave. on research related to developing universal skills in field classes and using student context factors to design new courses (Abbey et al., 2023; Ancayan & Abbey, 2023)
- (June 2023) Fun field season in central Colorado with Dr. Alex Tye from Utah Tech, and CSULB undergraduate student Myia MaGee. We measured stratigraphic sections, made clast counts, took imbrication measurements, and collected samples for thermochronology and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology analyses.
- (January 2023) Companion paper out for modeling strategies and lessons using QTQt.
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Other interests often leading to a bit of Geo-tourism!
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