Carmala Garzione

Carmala Nina Garzione is an American geologist who is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She was awarded the 2009 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

Carmala Garzione
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisTectonic and paleoelevation history of the Thakkhola Graben and implications for the evolution of the southern Tibetan Plateau
Doctoral advisorPeter G. DeCelles
Doctoral studentsGregory D. Hoke, Alex Pullen, Junsheng Nie

Early life and education

Garzione was an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she majored in geology and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was a graduate student in geosciences at the University of Arizona.[1] Her doctoral research considered the Kali Gandaki Gorge and Graben, and how the tectonics impacted the evolution of the Tibetan plateau.[2][3] As a graduate student she recognised the power of paleoaltimetry in the creation of geodynamics models.[1]

Research and career

Garzione joined the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor in 2000, and was promoted to Professor in 2013.[4] Her research considered mountains and climate evolution.[5] She focused on the Himalaya-Tibet region in the Himalayas and the Andes, mountain belts which impact global climate and geochemical budgets.[6][7] To better understand tectonic processes such as surface uplift, Garzione measures the elevation of ancient mountain ranges, so-called palaeoaltimetry, as well as measurements of surface temperatures from ancient soils.[8] She pioneered the use of stable isotope measurements.[9][10] In general, these include measurements of δ18O and δ2H in rainfall, the values of which vary as elevation increases.[10] Close to sea level, temperatures remain warm, whilst at higher elevations temperatures cool as the mountains rise. In general, heavier isotopes form stronger bonds. In low temperature elevated regions the atoms vibrate more slowly, and the bonds of heavy isotopes are more difficult to break, such that the concentration of Carbon-13 and Oxygen-18 are higher.[11]

Garzione showed that the Altiplano plateau in the central Andes was formed by a series of rapid growth pulses, not through continual uplift.[11][12][13] In terms of mountain growth, rapid means gaining at least one kilometre over several million years.[11] She showed that portions of the dense lower and upper crust, which function as an anchor to the crust base, periodically detach and sink through the mantle. This process facilitates the uplift of the lower density upper crust, allowing it to rise rapidly.[11] Garzione studied the role of carbon dioxide in the global cooling that occurred 3 million years ago.[14]

In 2019 Garzione moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology as the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.[6]

Awards and honors

Selected publications
  • Garzione, Carmala N.; Hoke, Gregory D.; Libarkin, Julie C.; Withers, Saunia; MacFadden, Bruce; Eiler, John; Ghosh, Prosenjit; Mulch, Andreas (2008-06-06). "Rise of the Andes". Science. 320 (5881): 1304–1307. doi:10.1126/science.1148615. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18535236.
  • DeCelles, Peter G.; Robinson, Delores M.; Quade, Jay; Ojha, T. P.; Garzione, Carmala N.; Copeland, Peter; Upreti, Bishal N. (2001-08-01). "Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal". Tectonics. 20 (4): 487–509. doi:10.1029/2000tc001226. ISSN 0278-7407.
  • Garzione, Carmala N.; Molnar, Peter; Libarkin, Julie C.; MacFadden, Bruce J. (2006-01-31). "Rapid late Miocene rise of the Bolivian Altiplano: Evidence for removal of mantle lithosphere". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 241 (3): 543–556. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.026. ISSN 0012-821X.

References
  1. "Geological Society of America - 2007 Donath Medal - Citation & Response". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  2. Tectonic and paleoelevation history of the Thakkhola Graben and implications for the evolution of the southern Tibetan Plateau. The University of Arizona. 2000. OCLC 1118676892.
  3. "Tibetan Plateau was larger than previously thought, geologists say". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  4. "Carmala N. Garzione, Curriculum Vitae – March 2018". 2021-01-12.
  5. "To Understand the Depths of the Planet, Look to the Mountains". Undark Magazine. 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  6. "RIT's Carmala Garzione awarded Society for Sedimentary Geology's William R. Dickinson Medal". RIT. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  7. Wade, Lizzie (2015-10-27). "Feature: How the Amazon became a crucible of life". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  8. "Carmala Garzione | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists". blavatnikawards.org. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  9. "SEPM Dickinson Award 2020". www.sepm.org. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  10. Rowley, David B.; Garzione, Carmala N. (2007). "Stable Isotope-Based Paleoaltimetry". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 35 (1): 463–508. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140155. ISSN 0084-6597.
  11. "Taking the pulse of mountain formation in the Andes". phys.org. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  12. "Rapid growth spurts formed vast and beautiful Altiplano plateau | EarthSky.org". earthsky.org. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  13. "Mountain Ranges Rise Dramatically Faster Than Expected". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  14. "International research team to explore whether the loss of CO2 caused earth to cool 3 million years ago". NewsCenter. 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  15. "Geological Society of America - Past Award & Medal Recipients". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
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