Kurt Sundell
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Idaho State University | Pocatello, IDContact: kurtsundell [at] isu.edu
Standing in some huge(!!!) mud cracks in southern Tibet during a 2019 field campaign.
About me:
I am interested in tectonic processes, interrogated through the lens of the sedimentary record. My research is usually field based, and complemented by a variety of analytical methods including U-Th-Pb geochronology, Lu-Hf and trace element geochemistry, stable isotopic analysis (O and H), and (U-Th)/He thermochronology. I like to take a quantitative approach to geologic questions, which has led me down a fun path of developing and applying quantitative sediment provenance methods, building on my Ph.D. research (check out GitHub here!).
I continue to work closely with the Arizona LaserChron Center at the University of Arizona. I maintain community involvement by engaging in LA-ICP-MS geochronology-geochemistry workshops, short courses, town halls, and by continuing to develop and maintaining data reduction-visualization-interpretation-archiving software for the LaserChron Center (AgeCalcML). Check out the lab here!
If you are interested in working with me as a student or as a collaborator please don’t hesitate to contact me! — I’m always interested in pursuing new avenues of science.