Item talk:Q165961

meta:

 status_code: 200
 timestamp: '2024-05-10T06:11:38.149561'
 url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/sean-p-gaynor

profile:

 abstracts: []
 affiliations:
 - American Geophysical Union
 - European Association of Geochemistry
 - European Geophysical Union
 - Geological Society of America
 - Society of Economic Geologists
 education:
 - Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018)
 - M.S., Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University (2013)
 - B.S., Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2011)
 email: sgaynor@usgs.gov
 expertise_terms:
 - Economic Geology
 - Geochronology
 - Isotope Geochemistry
 - Igneous Petrology
 - Mineral Resources
 honors: []
 intro_statements:
 - Sean Gaynor is a Research Geologist with the USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry
   (G3) Science Center in Denver, CO.
 name: Sean P. Gaynor, Ph.D.
 name_qualifier: null
 orcid: 0000-0002-8353-511X
 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/gggsc
 organization_name: Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
 personal_statement: "I am an economic geologist focused on generating and integrating\
   \ datasets to better understand geological and societal aspects of mineral resources,\
   \ ranging from their formation in mineral systems to documenting mining operations,\
   \ including both active and legacy features.Through my career, I\u2019ve worked\
   \ on understanding rates and sources of geologic processes, and largely approach\
   \ these types of scientific questions using radiogenic isotope geochemistry and\
   \ geochronology, while integrating other sub-disciplinary approaches such as sedimentology,\
   \ structural geology or geophysics. My research interests include economic geology,\
   \ large igneous provinces, batholith formation, supervolcano eruptions, igneous\
   \ petrology, global climate change in deep time, thermochronology, the geochemical\
   \ evolution of the lithosphere, extensional tectonics and the development of high-precision\
   \ geochronology. My research has spanned over several continents and included\
   \ geologic research ranging from the Archean to the present, and ore and mineral\
   \ deposits in the Colorado Mineral Belt, the Southern Rocky Mountains, the Arizona-New\
   \ Mexico porphyry Cu belt, South Africa, Croatia, Serbia, China and Nicaragua."
 professional_experience:
 - Research Geologist (2024-present)
 - Associate Research Specialist, Princeton University (2022-2024)
 - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Geneva (2019-2022)
 - Geoscience Intern, Anadarko Petroleum Company (2018)
 - Geoscience Intern, Chevron Mining Inc. (2013, 2014)
 - Research and Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013-2017)
 - Graduate Research Consultant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013)
 - Teaching Assistant, New Mexico State University (2011-2013)
 title: Research Geologist