Welcome to the Tufts Cosmo Lab!
The Tufts Cosmo Lab aims to understand how glaciers and landscapes respond to climate change on timescales of hundreds to millions of years. Our approach is “full-stack”, combining field observations, geochemistry, and modeling. In the lab, we specialize in cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry1 - we get especially excited about expanding the cosmo toolkit through the development of new laboratory methods, applications, and computational tools.
The group is supervised by Dr. Allie Balter-Kennedy and is growing to include postdocs, postbacs, and undergraduates. We are uniquely positioned as members of the undergraduate-only Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, which is situated within a highly active R1 research community at Tufts University. In our work, we value collaboration & creativity, emphasize undergraduate research involvement, and support postdocs in gaining leadership & mentoring experience.
Opportunities
Postdocs
If you are interested in joining the lab as a postdoc, please email Allie with a CV and a brief description of your research interests.
Postbacs
Are you a recent college graduate with prior experience in an Earth Science or Chemistry lab? Are you looking for work in a lab setting in the Greater Boston Area? Please email Allie to inquire about upcoming opportunities and include your resume as an attachment.
Undergraduate Students
Our undergraduate research positions are currently full. We will update this page when new positions open.
Footnotes
Cosmogenic nuclides are rare isotopes that are created when high-energy particles, known as cosmic rays, interact with atomic nuclei. Some cosmic rays reach the Earth’s surface where cosmogenic nuclides build up in rocks over time. The concentration of cosmogenic nuclides like 10Be and 26Al (among others) in minerals is used to quantify surface processes like erosion and date geologic events like glacial retreat.↩︎