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Education

• Ph.D in Geology, Oregon State University (2017–present)
• M.S. in Earth Sciences University of California, San Diego (2015)
• B.S. in Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, University of California, San Diego (2011)
• B.A. in History, University of California, San Diego (2011)

Awards

• 2021 - GSA Graduate Research Grant & Harold T. Stearns Fellowship - $2,420
• 2021 - Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS) Fellow - $1,000
• 2017-2020 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists - $18,000
• 2020 - President’s Commission on the Status of Women Community Builder Award, OSU
• 2017 - William Taubeneck Fellowship, College of Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric Sciences, OSU - $500

Publications

Truong, T.B., Castillo, P.R., Hilton, D.R., Day, J.M.D., (2018). The trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of Juan Fernandez lavas reveal variable contributions from a high-³He/⁴He mantle plume. Chemical Geology (476), 280-291, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.11.024.

Positions

• 2019 - 2021 - Graduate Research Assistant, OSU, NSF-funded project to study C-He isotopes at Loihi Seamount and implications for mantle dynamics. Prepared 53 submarine glass samples from Loihi seamount and analyzed for CO2-He concentrations and isotopes in melt/vesicles by noble gas mass spectrometry (MS), trace elements by laser ablation-ICP-MS.
• 2018 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, OSU, Argon Geochronology Laboratory. Aid in lab operations, mineral separation processes to prepare samples for Ar-Ar geochronology.