Isabel Fendley
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
Professional Experience
- Pennsylvania State University - Assistant Research Professor (2023-2026)
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University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences - Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) (2020-2023)
- Advisor: Tamsin Mather
- Project: Understanding the environmental effects of Large Igneous Province volcanism and its fingerprint in sedimentary records
Education
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Ph.D. Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science (2020)
- Advisor: Paul Renne
- Thesis: Eruptive rates and volatile emissions of the Deccan large igneous province and environmental consequences
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B.Sc. Honours in Planetary Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC (2015)
- Honours Thesis: Determining a timeline of key events near the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction boundary using sulfur isotopic composition
- Advisors: Hans Larsson & Boswell Wing
Fellowships & Awards
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2017-2020)
- Geological Society of America Research Grant (2017)
- Paleontological Society Stephen Jay Gould Award (2017)
- University of California Museum of Paleontology Field Work Grant (2017)
- Paleontological Society Kenneth E. and Annie Caster Award (2016)
- Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research (2016)