FRANK ALDEMARO CORSETTI
Department of Earth Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089
(213)-740-6123
fcorsett@usc.edu

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Publications (Link to list of publications)

University Degrees

University of California Davis, Geology, B.S. 1989 (High Honors)

University of California Santa Barbara, Geological Sciences, Ph.D. 1998

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences, USC, September 2000-March 2006

Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, USC, March 2006-present

Postdoctoral Researcher (UC President's Postdoctoral Scholar) UCSB, summer 1999-2000

Grants

2007:

NSF # 0720888 International Geobiology Course, $120,000, one year, Co-I.

USC Undergraduate research fund: $7500, one year

2005:

NSF #0447019 Investigating Early Triassic Ocean Chemistry during the Protracted Recovery from the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction, $150,000, two years

2004:

NSF #0418083: Biogeochemistry of the Snowball Earth $109,426, two years

USC Zumberge Fund, $25,000, one year

USC Undergraduate research fund: $7500, one year

2003:

NASA-JPL DRDF Complexity analysis and stromatolites as biosignatures?  $25,000

Synergistic Activities

Professional service:

Associate Editor: Geobiology (Blackwell).

Associate Editor: Palaios (SEPM), 2006-2008.

Technical Program Chairman in charge of SEPM poster sessions, 2007 AAPG National Meeting, Long Beach, CA.

Treasurer, Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division, Geological Society of America

Symposia Organizer, 2004 (Denver) and 2005 (Salt Lake City) GSA Annual Meeting.

Geological Society of America Research Grants Committee member-at-large, 2002-2005.

Vice President, Pacific Section SEPM (term 2001-2002).

Pacific Section SEPM Fall 2002 Fieldtrip Leader  (90 participants).

Pacific SEPM Editor, Book 93.

Field excursion co-leader (with P. Link and N. Lorentz) for GSA National meeting in Salt Lake City, October 2005.

Field excursion co-leader (with M. Abolins) for GSA National meeting in Reno, November 2000.

Faculty advisor for 2nd Annual Southern California Graduate Student Geobiology Conference, USC, April 2005.

Recent Invited Talks:

University of Colorado, Boulder (February 2004)

UCLA (March 2004)

Caltech (March 2004)

University of Maryland (October 2004)

Stanford University (January 2005)

Amherst College (February 2005)

UC Berkeley (November 2005)

University of Texas (April 2006)

California State University Long Beach (April 2006)

UC Riverside (May 2007)

California State University San Diego (October 2008)

UC Santa Barbara (January 2009)

Honors:

Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching (term 2008-2010)

USC Mellon Mentorship award, spring 2007 (Facutly to grad student mentoring)

Best Paper in Palaios, honorable mention, 2005 by Society for Sedimentary Geology

Geological Society of America commendation for service (awarded 2005)

Best poster, Astrobiology meeting, NASA Ames Research Center, California (2000)

 

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