SUZANNE L. BALDWIN

PROFESSOR

THERMOCHRONOLOGY

Department of Earth Sciences
204 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1070 USA

Office: 220 Heroy Geology Laboratory

Phone: 315.443.4920
Lab: 315.443.4917
Department: 315.443.2672
Fax: 315.443.3363

Email: sbaldwin@syr.edu

 

Current Research Interests

Suzanne in the field in Papua New Guinea
View of the South-West Pacific
Fergusson Island, Papua New Guinea: Home of the youngest exposed eclogite (4.3 Ma) on Earth
New Zealand

 

Laboratory Facilities

Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotopic Research Laboratory

  • Micromass 5400 Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer
  • Helium extraction line for (U-Th)/He Thermochronology

Click on the eclogite to the left to visit the SUNGIRL webpage

 

Education

Ph.D. in Geology, November 1988, State University of New York at Albany

M.Sc. in Geology, October 1984, State University of New York at Albany

B.Sc. in Geology, June 1980, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York

Professional Experience

Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (2006-)

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (2000-2006)

Associate Professor, Geosciences Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (1997-2000)

Research Associate, Australian Crustal Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1997-)

Research Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (1997)

Assistant Professor, Geosciences Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (1991- 1997)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1988 - 1991)

Selected Publications

* Baldwin, S.L., Rawling, T., and Fitzgerald, P.G., 2007, Thermochronology of the New Caledonia high pressure terrane: implications of mid-Tertiary plate boundary in processes in the southwest Pacific, in Cloos, M., Carlson, W. D., Gilbert, M. C., Liou, J. G. Rumble, D. and Sorensen, S. S., eds., Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions: A tribute to W.G. Ernst: Geological of America Special Paper 419, p. 117-134, doi: 10.1130/2006.2419(06).

* Fitzgerald, P.G. and S.L. Baldwin (2007), Thermochronologic constraints on Jurassic rift flank denudation in the Thiel Mountains, Antarctica, in Antarctica: A keystone in a Changing World - Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A. K. Cooper and C. R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 044, 4 p.; doi:10.3133/of2007-1047.srp044.

* Monteleone, B.D., Baldwin, S.L., Webb, L.E., Fitzgerald, P.G., Grove, M., and Schmitt, A., 2007, Late Miocene to Pliocene eclogite facies metamorphism, D Entrecasteaux Islands, SE Papua New Guinea, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 245-265, doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2006.00685.x.

* Little, T. A., S. L. Baldwin, P. G. Fitzgerald, and B. Monteleone, 2007, Continental rifting and metamorphic core complex formation ahead of the Woodlark spreading ridge, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tectonics, 26, TC1002, doi:10.1029/2005TC001911.

* Fitzgerald, P.G., Baldwin, S.L., Webb, L.E., and O'Sullivan, P., 2006, (U/Th)/He data from slowly cooled crustal terranes and the interpretation of intra-sample variations of single crystal apatite ages from vertical profiles, Chemical Geology, 225, 91-120.

* Lewis, A.R., Marchant, D.R., Baldwin, S.L., Webb, L.E., 2006, The age and origin of the Labyrinth, western Dry Valleys, Antarctica: evidence for extensive middle Miocene subglacial floods and freshwater discharge to the Southern Ocean, Geology, vol. 34, no.7, 513-516.

Courses

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