Nier Lecture - John Eiler (Caltech)

Mark your calendars for the annual A.O.C. Nier Lecture hosted by the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and the School of Physics and Astronomy. This year’s Nier Lecturer is John Eiler, Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, and Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech.

The Speaker: John is a renowned isotope geochemist and particularly well-known for his development of the so-called "clumped isotopes", which have become important tools for estimating temperatures - either in dinosaur bodies or solar system processes. More recent work of his group has focused on developing new mass spec techniques and theoretic framework to understand site-specific isotope information of organic molecules in the galaxy.

John is the Chair of Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.