Linda A. Hinnov
Professor of Geology
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences
George Mason University

Current Lab Members (2021-2022):

Graduate students:
Joao Meyers-Silveira, PhD, Hydrogen Sequestration in Geological Reservoirs, USGS
New master's student opportunity (2021 or 2022 to 2024 or 2025): The CycloAstro Project

Postdoctoral fellow:
Hamdi Omar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research scientists:
Jonathan Hammer, Research Scientist

Visiting PhD students:
Visitors are welcome!

Past Lab Members:

Christian Taubenberger, 2019-2020, Earth System Science Master's Degree, Fall, 2020: Energy Balance Models - now a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
Kunyuan Ma, 2018-2020, Visiting Ph.D. Student, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Paleozoic cyclostratigraphy - now at Taiyuan University of Technology
Matthew Smith, 2017-2019, Earth System Science Master's Degree, Spring, 2019: PETM in Delaware, now at Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc.
Michael Naylor Hudgins, 2017-2018, OSCAR Undergraduate Scholar, Evolutionary trends of Theropoda and Paracrocodylomorpha - now a PhD student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Marco Franceschi, 2017-2018, Fulbright Scholar, University of Padova, Italy - now a professor at University of Trieste
Wei Liu, 2016-2018, Visiting Ph.D. Student, China University of Geosciences (Beijing): Cretaceous cyclostratigraphy, stratigraphic modeling
Pillar De Oliveira Carvalho Rodrigues, 2017-2018, Visiting Ph.D. Student, National Observatory (Brazil): Paleoclimate and cyclostratigraphy of BIFs
Sean Karoly, 2016-2018, Earth System Science Master's Degree, Summer, 2017: Milankovitch-scale paleoclimate, Cretaceous OAE2- now at Geosyntech
Zhirong Liu, 2017-2018, Institute for Disaster Prevention, Sanhe City, China: astronomical forcing of North China Plain
Damien Pas, 2016-2017, Marie-Curie COFUND Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Late Devonian cyclostratigraphy - now at University of Lausanne
Kate Tuskes, 2015-2017, Earth System Science Master's Degree, Fall 2017: Devonian Kellwasser Crisis - now at Hatch
M'bark Baddouh, 2016-2017, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Seasonal-scale paleoclimate change, Cretaceous OAE2 - now Lecturer at University of Wisconsin, Plattville
Mingsong Li, 2016-2017, Postdoctoral Researcher: Holocene time scales and climate change - now an Assistant Professor at Peking University
Chao Ma, 2016-2017, Postdoctoral Researcher: Carboniferous carbonate platforms and astronomical forcing - now at Chengdu University of Technology
Jood Al Aswad, 2016, OSCAR Undergraduate Scholar, harmonic analysis of Earth tides in strainmeters - now a Ph.D. student at Stanford University

Principal Collaborators:

Slah Boulila, Lecturer, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Rocio Caballero-Gill, Research Assistant Professor, George Mason University, Virginia
Daniel Franco, Assistant Professor, National Observatory, Brazil
Ingrid Hendy, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Stephen Hesselbo, Professor, University of Exeter, UK
Chunju Huang, Professor, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China
Sean Kinney, Research Scientist, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York
Greg Laughlin, Professor, Yale University, Connecticut
Lorraine Lisiecki, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Alberto Malinverno, Research Professor, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York
Stephen Meyers, Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin
James Ogg, Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Paul Olsen, Professor, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York
Lynn Soreghan, Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Huaichun Wu, Professor, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China
Richard Zeebe, Professor, University of Hawaii, Hawaii