Bradley Cramer, Ph.D.

Advisory Committee Member
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biography

I try to understand the major biotic, chemical, and physical events that punctuate the history of our planet by throwing every tool and proxy at the problem as is possible.

High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy (HiRES) attempts to integrate all stratigraphic signals of past global biogeochemical events into a single chrono-stratigraphic framework to determine more precisely the exact order of events during intervals of global planetary change. My current  NSF CAREER grant focuses on developing Neogene-Scale resolution (i.e. <100 kyr) for global biogeochemical events that took place during the Wenlock Epoch of the Silurian Period (~430 Ma). This research involves the integration of biostratigraphy, stable and radiogenic isotope chemostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, major and trace-element geochemistry, and calibration of chronostratigraphy via radioisotope dating of zircons using CA-ID-TIMS.        

Research areas
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
Bradley Cramer
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Education
PhD, The Ohio State University, 2009
MS, The Ohio State University, 2005
BS, The Ohio State University, 2002
Contact Information
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35B Trowbridge Hall (TH)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States