The scientific staff of IIRMES comes from several departments in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts at California State University Long Beach.
Richard Gossett, IIRMES Director
Richard Behl, Professor, Geology
Rick Behl received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined CSULB in 1995. Behl's research and teaching interests focus on marine sedimentary geology, especially Quaternary and Neogene paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic change and the diagenesis of marine sediments. Behl has primary responsibility for the Analytical Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope and his research also utilizes the ICP-MS.
Gregory Holk, Associate Professor, Geology Greg Holk received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in geology. This was followed by post-doctoral positions with the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa and Queen's University (Canada). He joined CSULB in 2000. Research and teaching interests include stable isotope geochemistry, with an emphasis on igneous and metamorphic petrology, ore deposit geochemistry, and sedimentary basin fluid evolution. Holk has primary responsibility for the Isotope Ratio Gas Source Mass Spectrometer and will make use of the ICP-MS. Associated facilities include a fluid inclusion laboratory for the paleothermal and geochemical analysis of fluids trapped in minerals and a portable infrared spectrometer for hydrous mineral identification in the field.
Chuhee Kwon, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy Chuhee Kwon received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park and followed by a postdoctoral position in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and a director funded postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She joined CSULB in 1999. Dr. Kwon’s research includes superconductivity, magnetism, and bio-materials. She has primary responsibility for the Nanoscope III Multimode Scanning Probe Microscope.
Daniel O. Larson, Professor, Anthropology Dan Larson received his Ph. D. in 1987 from the University of California at Santa Barbara and completed a one-year postdoctoral position there as well. In 1989 he joined the Department of Anthropology at CSULB. Larson’s research focuses on the use of scientific methods in archaeology, evolutionary theory, cultural ecology, climatic reconstruction, archaeology and geophysics, quantitative methods, ethnohistory, and research design. His regional interests are the American Southwest, Great Basin, California and Northern Ireland.
Carl P. Lipo, Associate Professor, Anthropology Carl Lipo received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle and began at CSULB in the autumn of 2002. His research interests include the use of luminescence as a means of determining the age of prehistoric materials, study of cultural transmission within structured populations, the origins of complex societies in North America, and the emergence of cultural elaboration in Easter Island. More information: http://www.csulb.edu/~clipo/
Andrew Z. Mason, Professor, Biology Zed Mason received his Ph.D. from the University of Wales in marine biology and undertook two postdoctoral positions at the University of Reading and Sussex before taking a tenure track appointment at London Medical School. He joined CSULB in 1989. His research has focused primarily on understanding the cellular and molecular metabolism and homeostasis of metals. His research utilizes a combination of quantitative kinetic and spatial analytical techniques including ICP-MS, EDX, WDX, ESEM, TEM, HPLC and GC-MS. Dr Mason has primary responsibility of the ICP-MS, HPLC’s and the TEM. More information: http://www.csulb.edu/~zedmason/
Christopher Mull, IIRMES Laboratory Technical Staff Chris Mull is a M.S. student, finishing his thesis in the Department of Biological Sciences at CSULB. He received his B.S. in Environmental Biology at the University of California, Davis. He joined IIRMES in the summer of 2006. His research focuses on the reproductive physiology of sharks and stingrays.
Hector Neff, Professor, Anthropology Hector Neff came to CSULB from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002. His research interests include application of chemical analytical techniques to archaeological problems; the origins of agriculture; and cultural evolution in Mesoamerica. He is the principal researcher on the GBC laser ablation time-of-flight ICP-MS. More information: http://www.csulb.edu/~hneff/ |