President's Postdoctoral
Fellowship Awards 1999 - 2000
Physical Sciences
Katherine Barbeau
Education: B.S. Southhampton College, Long Island University,
Chemistry and Marine Science/Chemistry; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Chemical Oceonography
Dissertation: Influence of Protozoan Grazing on the Marine Geochemistry
of Particle Reactive Trace Metals
Thesis Advisor: James Moffett, Associate Scientist, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
Research Topic: Reactivity and Fate of Marine Bacterial Siderophores
Mentor: Alison Butler, Professor of Chemistry, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Current Position: Associate Professor, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Frank Corsetti
Education: B.S. University of California, Davis, Geology;
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Geological Sciences
Dissertation: Regional Correlation, Age Constraints, and Geologic
History of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Strata, Southern Great Basin, USA
: Integrated Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, and Lithostratigraphy
Thesis Advisor: Stan Awramik, Professor of Geological Sciences,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Topic: Investigating the "Snowball Earth" Hypothesis
for Neoproterozoic Glaciations
Mentor: John C. Crowell, Professor of Geological Sciences, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California
Robert Liu
Education: B.S. Stanford University, Physics; M.S. Stanford
University, Applied Physics; Ph.D. Stanford University, Applied
Physics
Dissertation: Quantum Noise in Mesoscopic Electron Transport
Thesis Advisor: Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Professor of Applied Physics,
Stanford University
Research Topic: Nuetral Circuitry and Coding in the Mouse Auditory
System
Mentor: Kenneth Miller, Professor of Physiology, University of
California, San Francisco
Current Position: NIH Fellow, Department of Physiology and Otolaryngology,
University of California, San Francisco
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