Curriculum Vitae
Faculty Appointments
2015- Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, Department of Earth Sciences
Postdoctoral Appointments
2014-15 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences
Jack Satterly Laboratory for Geochronology
Research focus: U-Pb geochronology of secondary calcite using LA-ICP-MS and ID-TIMS
2012-14 Roger E. Deane Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences
Laboratory for Metal Isotope Biochemistry
Research focus: Hg isotopes as tracers of Hg sources in aquatic environments; Hg isotopes as a paleo-proxy
Education
2012 Ph.D., University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences (Isotope Geochemistry)
Advisor: Joaquin Ruiz.
Dissertation: Isotopic Evidence for the Provenance of Turquoise, Mineral-Paints, and Metals in the Southwest United States.
2006 M.Sc., University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences (Isotope Geochemistry)
Advisor: Joaquin Ruiz.
Thesis: The Strange Case of the Earliest Silver Extraction by European Colonists in the New World.
2004 B.A., Amherst College, Geology and Anthropology, cum laude
Fellowships
2011 Florence C. and Robert H. Lister Dissertation Fellowship, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado
2004-6 NSF-Integrative Graduate Education Research & Training Fellowship (IGERT) in Archaeological Science, the University of Arizona
Employment
2011-2012 Graduate Associate, Department of Geosciences, the University of Arizona
2011 Intern, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
2009-2011 Graduate Associate, Department of Anthropology, the University of Arizona
2004-2009 Graduate Associate, Department of Geosciences, the University of Arizona
Publications
(see "publications" page)
Courses Taught (2015-2018)
ERSC 142: Earth's Changing Climate
ERSC 121: Habitable Worlds
ERSC 331: Geochemistry
ERSC 311: Archaeological Geology
ERSC 311: Isotope Geochemistry
FYS-43: Exploring American Wilderness
Students Advised
Senior Thesis students
2016 Zachary Keller-Coffey ’17
"Isotopic tracing of turquoise artifacts from southern New Mexico, USA"
2017 Rachael Moore ’18
"Mercury chemostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in Kuhjoch, Austria"
2018 Allison Curley ’19
"Lead isotopes as chronostratigraphic markers in lake sediments in northeastern PA" (ongoing)
2018 Kendra Bonsey ’19
"Lead isotopes as chronostratigraphic markers in lake sediments in northeastern PA" (pending)
Summer Research Students
2017 Allison Curley ’19
2017 Amanda Kale ’17
Selected Media Interviews/Coverage
2018 “Researchers Source Ancient Turquoise,” American Archaeology, v. 21, no 4., p.11
2018 “Isotopes suggest ancient turquoise mining was prolific” Earth Magazine, Jan/Feb 2015
2018 Untold Arizona: Tracing Arizona’s Turquoise Legacy Through Time, Reported by Nicolas Gerbais, KJZZ Phoenix (February 9, 2018)
2015 Oleson, Timothy, “Isotopes could reveal ancient American turquoise trade” Earth Magazine, December 2015, p. 19.
2007 Quirks and Quarks, CBC Radio, February 24th, 2007
2007 La Isabela’s Final Failure, The New York Times, February 27th, 2007
2007 The Science Show, ABC Radio, March 17th, 2007
Invited Seminars
2018 Was there a turquoise trail? Isotopic investigations of turquoise mining and trade in the American Southwest and
Mesoamerica. Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, February 2018
2017 Mercury anomalies, volcanism, and biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
Department of Earth and the Environment, Franklin and Marshall College, March 2017
2017 The relationship between massive volcanism and mass extinctions: insights from mercury anomalies and isotopes.
Five College Geology Lecture Series, Department of Geology, Amherst College, February 8, 2017
2016 Mercury anomalies, volcanism, and biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction
Department of Biology, Earth, and Environmental Science, Drexel University, September 29, 2016
2013 Isotopic Tracers in the Earth Sciences and Archaeology. Seminar in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, September 19, 2013.
2012 Isotopic Evidence for the Source of Turquoise in the Southwest U.S. and Mesoamerica. Seminar at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, November 29, 2012.
2012 Isotopic Evidence for the Provenance of Turquoise in the Southwest U.S. and Mesoamerica. Seminar at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, August 9, 2012.
2009 Tracing Turquoise from Site to Source using Radiogenic Isotopes. Seminar at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), Oxford University, UK.
Invited Conference Presentations
2013 Thibodeau, A.M., Lead and Strontium Isotopes in Archaeology. Invited talk at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting
(Archaeological Chemistry Session), New Orleans, LA, April 6-11, 2013.
2012 Ruiz, J., Killick, D. J., Thibodeau, A.M, Fenn, T. Heavy Isotopes in Archaeology. Keynote presented at 22nd V.M. Goldschmidt Conference (Session on Reciprocal Interactions between Archaeology and Archaeometry), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2009 Thibodeau, A.M., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T., Killick, D.J. Tracing turquoise from site to source across the Greater American Southwest and Mesoamerica. Invited talk at Turquoise, Henry Christy, and museum collections: an interdisciplinary
conference, The British Museum, London, U.K.
2009 Thibodeau, A.M., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T. Tracing turquoise from site to source with radiogenic isotopes. Invited talk at the 2009
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Selected Presentations, Professional Meetings
(* indicates Student author)
2018 Thibodeau, A.M., (FORUM PANELIST) Advances and Prospects in the Archaeological Sciences on the 40th Anniversary of the
Society for Archaeological Sciences. Panel Presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting for the Society of American Archaeology,
Washington D.C.
2017 Curley, A.L.*, Thibodeau, A.M., Kaplan, E., Howe, E., Lead isotopes as chronological markers for colonial period ceremonial
drinking vessels in the Andes. Poster presented at the 2017 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. doi:
10.1130/abs/2017AM-305895
2017 Thibodeau, A.M., Bergquist, B.A. Corsetti, F., Yager, J., West, A.J., Bottjer, D., Berelson, W.,
Hg isotopes as tracers of depositional environments in marine sediments from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic. Paper
presented at the 2017 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
2017 Thibodeau, A.M., Bergquist, B.A. Corsetti, F., Yager, J., West, A.J., Bottjer, D., Berelson, W., The Hg isotopic composition of Hg-
enriched marine sediments: a geologic perspective. Paper presented at the 2017 International Conference on Mercury as a
Global Pollutant, Providence R.I.
2016 Thibodeau, A.M., Killick, D.J., Tracing Turquoise in the Southwest U.S. and Mexico: The Case for Lead and Strontium Isotopes.
Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Southwest Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.
2015 Thibodeau, A.M., Corsetti, F., Ritterbush, K., Yager, J., West, A.J., Yadira, I., Bottjer, D., Berelson, W., and Bergquist, B. Mercury
Concentrations and isotopes as tracers of CAMP in Triassic-Jurassic strata from Muller Canyon, Nevada. Paper presented at the
2015 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
2015 Thibodeau, A.M., Davis, D., Parmenter, A., Fracture Infilling Geochronology: Research Report. Paper Presented at the Nuclear
Waste Management Organization of Canada (NWMO) Geoscience Seminar, June 1, 2015
2013 Thibodeau, A.M., Bergquist, B., Kah, L.C., Ghosh, S., Ono, S., Hazen, R. Mass independent fractionation of Hg isotopes preserved
in the Precambrian. Paper presented at the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
2013 Thibodeau, A.M., Bergquist, B., Kah, L.C., Ghosh, S., Ono, S., Hazen, R. Hg concentrations
and mass independent fractionation in mid-Proterozoic marine shales. Paper presented at the 2013 Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
2012 Thibodeau, A.M., López-Luján, Leonardo, Killick, D.J., Ruiz, J. Sr isotopes reveal new insights about the source of turquoise at the Aztec Templo Mayor. Paper presented at the 22nd V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2011 Thibodeau, A.M., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T., Killick, D.J. Determining the provenance of turquoise
from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, NM. Poster presented at the 2011 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meting,
Sacramento, CA.
2010 Thibodeau, A.M., Thomas, N., Mathur, R., Chesley, J.T., Killick, D.J., and Ruiz, J. Copper isotopes in archaeology: applications to metals and minerals in the southwestern U.S. Poster presented at the 38th International Symposium on Archaeometry,
Tampa, FL.
2010 Thibodeau, A.M., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T., and Killick, D.J. Following the Coronado trail through artifact-based lead isotope
analysis. Paper presented at 2010 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
2008 Thibodeau, A.M., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T., and Killick, D.J. An expanded lead and strontium isotopic database for turquoise d deposits in the Greater American Southwest: Implications for provenance studies of archaeological turquoise. Poster presented at the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy. 2007
2007 Thibodeau, A.M., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T. Lead and strontium isotopes as geochemical tracers of turquoise. Paper presented at
the 2007 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
2006 Thibodeau, A.M., Killick, D.J., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T., Deagan, K., Cruxent, J., Lyman, W. The strange case of the earliest silver
extraction by European colonists in the New World, 36th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Quebec City, Quebec.
2005 Thibodeau, A.M., Killick, D.J., Ruiz, J., Chesley, J.T., Baker, M. Searching for a silver lining: Using Pb Isotopes to constrain the source of argentiferous galena at La Isabela. Poster presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
Professional Development, Service, and Public Outreach
2016 Attendee, Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty (National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the National Science
Foundation, Baltimore, MD)
2016 Attendee, Central PA Consortium Annual Conference for New and Early Career Faculty (Carlisle, PA)
2015 Attendee, STEM-UP PA Innovations in Teaching Symposium (Harrisburg, PA)
2012 Guest panelist, Panel discussion, Turquoise Mosaics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA), May 21, 2012.
2010 Guest speaker, Tucson Gem and Mineral Society. Tracing the Turquoise Trail: Mining and Mineral Trade in the Prehispanic Southwest and Mexico
2010 Co-chair and organizer, Technological Transformations on the Colonial Frontier: New World Contact and Early Historic Period Technologies of Indigenous and Historic Populations, Session at the 2010 Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
2007 Guest speaker, Arizona Geological Society. From Chaco Canyon to Coronado: Using Geochemistry to Understand the History of Mining, Metals, and Minerals in the Southwest U.S.
2007 Co-chair, GeoDaze Symposium, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Academic scholarships and travel awards
2012 GPSC Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Council, the University of Arizona
2012 International Symposium on Archaeometry Student Travel Grant
2010 WISE Travel Stipend, Women in Science and Engineering, the University of Arizona
2009 GPSC Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Council, the University of Arizona
2008 Wesley Pierce Scholarship, Department of Geosciences, the University of Arizona
2008 Conoco-Phillips Scholarship, Department of Geosciences, the University of Arizona
2007 Galileo Circle Scholar, College of Science, University of Arizona
2007 Chevron-Texaco Scholarship, Department of Geosciences, the University of Arizona
2004 John Mason Clarke 1877 Prize, Amherst College, Department of Geology
Presentation Awards
2011 R.E. Taylor Student Poster Award (Society for Archaeological Sciences), Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
2007 Golder Associates Inc. Award for Best Geochemistry Talk, GeoDaze Symposium, University of Arizona
2006 Martin Aiken Prize for Best Student Poster, 36th International Symposium on Archaeometry
2006 R.E. Taylor Student Poster Award (Society for Archaeological Sciences), 36th International Symposium on Archaeometry
2005 Zumberge Award for Best Geochemistry Talk, GeoDaze Symposium, University of Arizona
Field and Laboratory Courses
2009 Bighorn Basin Field Course
ExxonMobil recruiting short course
2005 Ancient and Historic Metals: Technology, Microstructure, and Corrosion
UCLA, short course by David A. Scott
2003 UPenn-YBRA Geology Field Course
Field course in geologic mapping
2003 Xibun Archaeological Research Project (XARP)
Boston University International Programs: Belize Archaeological Field School