Dr. Grossman

Ethan L. Grossman

Michel T. Halbouty Chair in Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Grossman's Departmental web page

Offices: 210 Halbouty Building
Phone: Office (979) 845-0637
Email: e-grossman@tamu.edu

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Publications	Graduate Students and Research	Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility	Curriculum Vitae
GEOL 101 (4) Principles of Geology	GEOL 648 (3) Stable Isotope Geology	GEOL 658 (3) Earth Systems through Deep Time

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3115

PICTURES

Gathering in Chinatown, Fall 2011 AGU (L-R: John Robbins, Josiah Strauss, Ethan Grossman, Takuro Kobashi, Maiko Kobashi, Kai Tao (also at AGU, but not in picture: Chuanlun "John" Zhang)
Waiting for the field trip bus to be repaired at International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (Horng-sheng "Orson" Mii, Michael Joachimski, Ethan Grossman) (7/2011)
John Robbins and Aaron O'Dea at Wild Cane Cay, Panama (7/2011) (Other Panama pictures: Burica Peninsula)

AREAS OF SPECIALTY

Paleoclimate and global change ; Stable isotope geochemistry ; Coastal environments - past, present, and future; Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of aquifer systems

My research applies stable isotope geochemistry to understand environmental and paleoenvironmental change and its causes. Ongoing projects of current students include (1) The Neogene closing of the Central American Isthmus and its relation to climate change, circulation change, and the Caribbean extinction event (Kai Tao, Ph.D. candidate, John Robbins, Halbouty post-doc, and Aaron O'Dea, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; see AP video showing Kai and Ethan in Panama); (2) circulation changes in the epicontinental seas of Carboniferous North America during formation of Pangea and its role in Late Paleozoic Ice Age (funded by NSF; Ryan Flake, M.S., 2011, and Debbie Thomas, Brent Miller, Tom Olszewski, Anne Raymond, Tom Yancey); (3) The historic record of hypoxia off the Texas Coast through stable isotopic analyses of waters, mollusks, and foraminifera (Josiah Strauss, Ph.D., 2010; funded by Texas Advanced Research Program).

Stephanie Wood (B.S., 2011) and Jordan Noret (B.S., 2008) completed senior theses on late Paleozoic isotope stratigraphy and paleoclimates under the auspices of the Undergraduate Research Scholars program.

My students find jobs in all aspects of geosciences, including academia (Kobashi, Mii, Routh, Romanek, Strauss, Zhang), petroleum industry (Adlis, Beck, Coffman, Gentry, Katz, Sprague), environmental industry (Schlichenmeyer), and governmental and non-governmental agencies (Canova).

Publications with links to pdf reprints, abstracts, figures, and appendices )
Curriculum Vitae
Stable Isotope Geoscience Facility (three ThermoFinnigan/Scientific isotope ratio mass spectrometers (MAT253, MAT252, DeltaPlusXP) and several peripherals for carbonate, water, and organic matter analyses (Kiel IV, Gas Bench II, two EAs, TC/EA, GC-combustion)
Graduate Students and Research
Digital Gallery for Paleochemical Specimens and Thin-sections (DiGPaST) (includes photomicrographs of brachiopod shell thin-sections in plane light and cathodoluminescence)
Oxygen Isotope Paleotemperature Equations: an Overview
Contract analyses
- Carbonate samples
- Water δ¹⁸O and δD
- Water δ¹³C
- δ¹³C, δ¹⁵ N, %C, %N, C/N of organic matter

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT

RECENT SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

CLASSES

GEOL 101 (4). Principles of Geology
GEOL 311 (1) Principles of Geological Writing
GEOL 648 (3). Stable Isotope Geology
GEOL 658 (3) Earth Systems through Deep Time (with A. Raymond, B. Miller, T. Olszewski, D. Thomas, D. Wiltschko, and others )
GEOL 689. Geochemical Characterization of Natural Systems (lead by J. McGuire with R. Guillemette, B. Herbert, R. Popp, E. Smith)
GEOL 681 (1). Seminar (Recent topics: Stable Isotope Geoscience)

LINKS

Co-organizer (E.L. Grossman, M.M. Joachimski, and I. Montanez), Theme Session on Paleotemperature, Paleocirculation, and Chemistry of Carboniferous and Permian Oceans, XVII Intl. Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Perth, Australia (7/11)
Co-organizer (E.L. Grossman and C. Lear), Paleoclimate Reconstruction theme, Goldschmidt 2010 , Knoxville, TN, (6/10)
Co-organizer (E.L. Grossman and H-S. Mii), Theme Session on Isotopic Geochemistry and Geobiology in the Permo-Carboniferous, XVI Intl. Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Nanjing , China (6/07)