Research Interests

• The dolomite problem and the possibility of primary dolomite formation
• Isotope geochemistry as a tool for paleoenvironmental interpretation
• Environmental monitoring and bioremediation topics

• 1998. Harvard University.  A.B. with concentration in Biology.  Honors thesis title: "A Vaucherian alga from the Early Neoproterozoic Lakhanda Beds, Uchur-Maya Region, Siberia"
• 2000 (2003). University of Southern California.  M.S. in Geological Sciences.  Thesis title: "The Origin of Enigmatic Sedimentary Structures in the Neoproterozoic Noonday Dolomite, Death Valley, CA: A Paleoenvironmental, Petrographic, and Geochemical Investigation"

Publications  (all are abstracts)

Woods, Katharine N., Bottjer, David J.  2000. Determining the Origin of Enigmatic Sedimentary Structures in the Neoproterozoic Noonday Dolomite, Death Valley, CA: A Paleoenvironmental, Petrographic, and Geochemical Investigation; Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.32 (7).

Woods, Katharine N. 1999.  Investigating the Nature of the Dolomite in a Possible Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonate:  The Noonday Formation, Death Valley, CA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.31 (7).

Woods, Katharine N. 1999. Exploring the possibility of primary origins of Neoproterozoic dolomite: The Noonday Formation as a case study. PaleoBios, v. 19.

Katharine Woods

Geochemistry Department:
Center for Isotope Geochemistry

Phone:
510-486-5659
Fax: 510-486-5496
Email: knwoods@lbl.gov