You’ve found the SCIPP Lab!

Research in the SCIPP Lab (PI: Sierra Petersen) has traditionally focused on reconstructing past climate and ocean conditions across Earth history using geochemical tools such as stable and clumped isotopes of carbonate shell fossils (hence the acronym, SCIPP = Stable and Clumped Isotopes for Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography). We have ongoing projects focusing on reconstructing climate in the Cretaceous, Pliocene, and Pleistocene, looking at how climate has changed on million-year down to sub-annual timescales. More recently, we have been using the same isotopic tools to probe physiology of marine mollusks, past and present. We are considering adding another P (for Physiology) to the name! Check out our Research page for more details on all these projects.

Interested in joining the Petersen Group?

*********The SCIPP Lab is no longer at UM!*********

PI Petersen has left University of Michigan and is building a new group and new lab at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Research topics will continue in the same vein as the exciting work we did at UM. Lots of opportunities exist for new students.

We welcome interested students at all levels (graduate student, postdoc, summer/full semester undergrad intern). Positions can begin at any time (not aligned with US admissions process). If interested, please contact PI Petersen at her new email address: [email protected] about available opportunities. Please include your CV and unofficial transcript with your email.