People
Dr. Gary E. Stinchcomb
Assistant Professor, Johnson Hall, Room 235, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis
ph: 901-678-5223
email: gstnchcm (at) memphis (dot) edu
Current lab members
Narayan Adhikari
Ph.D., 2024, Earth Sciences, University of Memphis; Advisor: Dr. Randy Cox
Research Assistant, Methane cycling in bald cypress (DoE, DE-SC0022228)
Mei Cowle
B.S., in progress, Environmental Sciences, Rhodes College
Research Assistant
Research: Dendrochemical response of Taxodium distichum (bald cypress) to the New Madrid 1811-1812 earthquake
Israel Collins
Current, B.S., in progress, Earth Sciences, University of Memphis
Research Assistant, Methane cycling in bald cypress (DoE, DE-SC0022228)
Research: Dendrochemical response of Taxodium distichum (bald cypress) to the New Madrid 1811-1812 earthquake
Lab alumni
Jarred Asselta
Ph.D., in progress, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
B.S., Chemistry & Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2022, Murray State University
Honor's Thesis: Reconstructing the past environments of the K-Pg boundary in western KY, USA
Marie White
Ph.D., in progress, Texas State University
M.S. 2022, Earth Sciences, University of Memphis
B.S. Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2020, Murray State University
Senior Thesis: Fossil soil variability during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia.
Lance Stewart
Current: Watershed Representative, Tennessee Valley Authority
M.S. Watershed Studies, 2020, Paleofloods and landform development influence carbon storage in a humid-subtropical river valley
B.S. Geosciences, 2017 McNair Scholar Research: Microscopic analysis of quartz grains used in OSL dating
Ben Ferguson
Current: Senior Research Specialist, Oklahoma State University.
M.S. Watershed Studies, 2018, The effect of alluvial landscape position on soil organic carbon in the Clarks River Valley, Western, KY USA
B.S. Geosciences, 2015, Senior research project: Topographic controls on organic matter degradation using soil micromorphology)