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David Fike
Graduate Student
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Room 54-812, 77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
email dfike@mit.edu
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research interests
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I seek to understand the relationships between life and its environment, particularly the influence of environmental changes on microbial evolution. Working with Roger Summons and John Grotzinger, I am examining a series of rocks that were deposited following the last "Snowball Earth" glaciation (~ 630 million years ago) up until the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary (~543 million years ago). I am using a combination of carbon and sulfur isotope and biomarker analysis to reconstruct environmental change that led to the evolutionary radiation of multicellular life at the boundary.
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education
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- B.S. in Engineering Physics/Astronomy/Geology: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001
- M. Phil in Polar Studies: Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, 2002
- Ph.D candidate in Geobiology: MIT, since 2002
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