Current Research Interests

My research investigates how planets have evolved over geologic time. My current research interests are broad and include studies aimed at understanding lithospheric plate boundary processes, and environmental conditions required for the origin of life on habitable planets. The analytical techniques I use reveal the conditions (e.g., depth, temperature) in which minerals and rocks form, and their age. I direct the Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotopic Research Laboratory (SUNGIRL) where noble gases are extracted from minerals to reveal their thermal histories. My research is funded by the US National Science Foundation and NASA.

 

 

Courses

Mineralogy (EAR 314) Petrology (EAR 418) Thermochronology (EAR 444/644) Various research seminars on thermochronology and its applications to tectonics. For example: EAR 400/600 Microplate Dynamics.

 

 

Students

Castellani, Leigh (BSc) Feinberg, Emily (MSc) Gombosi, David (PhD) Terrien, Jessica (PhD) Zirakparvar, Alex (PhD)

 

 

Laboratory Facilities

 

 

Selected Publications

Baldwin, S.L., Webb, L.E., and Monteleone, B.D., 2008. Late Miocene coesite-eclogite exhumed in the Woodlark Rift, v. 36; no. 9; p. 735–738; doi: 10.1130/G25144A.1.

Webb, L.E., Baldwin, S.L., Little, T. A., Fitzgerald, P.G., 2008. Can microplate rotation drive subduction inversion? Geology, v. 36(10), p. 823–826.

* 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.

 

 

CV for Suzanne Baldwin