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 noble gases in planetary materials. The analytical techniques I use reveal the conditions (e.g., depth, temperature) in which minerals and rocks form, and their age (time). 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 program has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Energy.

• John Mark Brigham (Ph.D.)

Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotopic Research Laboratory

• Micromass 5400 Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer

http://su-thermochronology.syr.edu/

Baldwin, S.L., Schönig, J., Gonzalez, J.P., Davies, H., von Eynatten, H., Garnet sand reveals rock recycling processes in the youngest exhumed high- and ultrahigh-pressure terrane on Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jan 2021, 118 (3) e2017231118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017231118.

Nachlas, W., Baldwin, S., Thomas, J., & Ackerson, M. (2020). Investigation of N in Ammonium-bearing Silicates with Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA). Microscopy and Microanalysis, 26(S2), 42-43. doi:10.1017/S1431927620013203

Joseph P. Gonzalez, Suzanne L. Baldwin, Jay B. Thomas, William O. Nachlas, Paul G. Fitzgerald, (2020) Evidence for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism discovered in the Appalachian orogen. Geology doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G47507.1

Faryad, S.W., Baldwin, S.L., Jedlicka, R., Ježek, J., 2019, Two-stage garnet growth in coesite eclogite from the southeastern Papua New Guinea (U)HP terrane and its geodynamic significance, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology , 174: 73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1612-4.

Gonzalez, J., Thomas, J.B., Baldwin, S.L., Alvaro, M. 2019, Quartz‐in‐Garnet and Ti‐in‐Quartz (QuiG‐TiQ) thermobarometry: methodology and first application to a quartzofeldspathic gneiss from eastern Papua New Guinea, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12508

Baldwin S.L., Fitzgerald P.G., Malusà M.G. (2019) Crustal Exhumation of Plutonic and Metamorphic Rocks: Constraints from Fission-Track Thermochronology. In: Malusà M., Fitzgerald P. (eds) Fission-Track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89421-8_13.

*Osborne, Z.R., Thomas, J.B., Nachlas, W.O., Baldwin, S.L., Holycross, M.E., Spear, F.S., and Watson E.B., 2019, An experimentally calibrated thermobarometric solubility model for titanium in coesite (TitaniC), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,174:34, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1575-5.

Gonzalez, J., and Baldwin, S. L., 2019, Modeling white mica pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) paths using 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic and thermobarometric data, Terra Nova.; 00:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12381.

Gonzalez, JP, Baldwin, SL. Modelling white mica pressure‐temperature‐time (P‐T‐t) paths using thermobarometric and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data. Terra Nova. 2019; 31: 169– 178. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12381