Earth History @ UVic

Team

Meet the team reading Earth's history.

The group brings together sedimentology, geochemistry, stratigraphy, computation, and field experience across projects on sea level, carbonate systems, stratigraphy, and past climate. Each person manages their own research projects with mentorship and support from the PI, and we work together to share ideas, data, and skills.

Current Members

Portrait of Blake Dyer

Principal Investigator

Blake Dyer

Blake combines field geology, geochemistry, geospatial data, and modeling to reconstruct Earth-system change.

  • Sea level
  • Stratigraphy
  • Geochemistry
  • Modeling

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Portrait of Argelia Silva Fragoso

Postdoctoral Researcher

Argelia Silva Fragoso

Argelia models seafloor lava accretion and carbon storage opportunities near ridge systems.

  • Numerical modeling
  • Seafloor processes
  • Carbon storage

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Alumni And Past Members

Portrait of Stacey Edmonsond

PhD, 2026

Stacey Edmonsond

Now a McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.

Stacey studies how climate and environmental change are translated into Paleozoic carbonate stratigraphy.

  • Stratigraphy
  • Carbon cycle
  • Methods

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Portrait of Miranda Reid

MSc, 2026

Miranda Reid

Now a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo.

Miranda uses machine learning and coastal observations to improve predictions of future risk.

  • Coastal change
  • Machine learning
  • Sea-level risk

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Portrait of Connor van Wieren

PhD, 2025

Connor van Wieren

Now a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University.

Connor worked on Neoproterozoic carbonate chemostratigraphy.

  • Carbon cycle
  • Stratigraphy
  • Neoproterozoic

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Portrait of Kai Tawil-Morsink

MSc, 2025

Kai Tawil-Morsink

Now an Education Fellow at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Kai investigated carbon isotope records in Late Cenomanian and early Turonian carbonates.

  • Carbon isotopes
  • Stratigraphy
  • Education

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Portrait of Kristyn Lang

NSERC USRA, 2021–2022

Kristyn Lang

Now an MSc student at the University of Victoria.

Kristyn worked on software and models for carbonate facies and sea-level inference.

  • Carbonate facies
  • Sea level
  • Modeling

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Some of our close collaborators