Drew S. Coleman
Professor
dcoleman@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-0705
325 Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300
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Education
M.S., University of Kansas, 1988
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1991
Research Interests
Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology
Research and Activities
I am actively recruiting graduate students to work on all of the projects described below. Join an active lab doing diverse research with 3 Ph.D. students, 1 M.S. student and several undergraduates. The Department of Geological Sciences also offers full summer support for graduate students in good standing.
My students and I are broadly focused on understanding the rates of geologic processes so that we can better understand mechanisms. Active research in the isotope lab centers on these areas:
- subvolcanic magma accumulation rates and volcano-pluton connections
- rates of zircon transport in the modern Amazon River
- Cretaceous time scale geochronology
- forensic geology and geoarchaeology
- polymetallic sulfide and porphyry mineralization
- environmental isotope geochemistry