Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow

USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (2023-Present)

Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant

Idaho State University (2018-2023)

Exploration Summer Science Intern

Lunar Planetary Institute (2021)

Laboratory Directed Research and Development Intern

Idaho National Lab (2020)

Universities Space Research Association Intern 

NASA Ames Research Center (2017)

Idaho State University

PhD Geosciences 2023

Accolades: Outstanding Researcher Award

Dissertation: From Plumes to Tubes: Exploring the Dynamics and Products of Volcanic Eruptions on the Earth, Moon, and Mars.

University of California, Santa Cruz

BS Earth and Planetary Sciences. Concentration: Planetary Sciences 2017

Accolades: Outstanding Senior Award, Highest Honors in the major, Cum Laude.

Thesis: Observations of Tidally Induced Seismicity at the Grounding Zone of the Whillans Ice Plain.

Paladino, T.G., Nawotniak, S.K., Nicholson, B., Karunatillake, S., 2024. Effects of wind on the stability of explosive eruption plumes. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 448, 108036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108036

Paladino, T.G., Nawotniak, S.K., Millour, E., Karunatillake, S., Hood, D.R., Bates, A., 2024. Ancient volcanism may have influenced patterns of hydrated regolith on Mars. Icarus 409, 115858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115858

Tai Udovicic, C.J., Frizzell, K.R., Kodikara, G.R.L., Kopp, M., Luchsinger, K.M., Madera, A., Meier, M.L., Paladino, T.G., Patterson, R.V., Wroblewski, F.B., Kring, D.A., 2023. Buried Ice Deposits in Lunar Polar Cold Traps Were Disrupted by Ballistic Sedimentation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 128, e2022JE007567. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007567

Bates, A., Goossens, S., Lorenzo, J.M., Ojha, L., Hood, D.R., Karunatillake, S., Nawotniak, S.K., Paladino, T., 2023. Supervolcanic resurfacing in northwestern Arabia Terra, Mars. Icarus 390, 115303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115303

2023 - Sacramento State University Geology & Environmental Studies/USGS Seminar Series

2023 - University of Oregon Volcanology Seminar Series

2019 & 2023 Idaho State University Colloquium

2021 Idaho NASA EPSCoR Research Initiation Grant - $42,000

2021 Jeff Geslin Geosciences Research Fund - $1,500