CV

Education

2013-2020: Princeton University

Ph.D. in Geosciences, June 2020.

NSF Graduate Fellow, Princeton University Centennial Fellowship

Adviser: Professor Blair Schoene

2009-2013: Yale University

B.S. in Geology & Geophysics and Humanities, May 2013.

Distinction in both majors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Adviser: Professor David Evans

Appointments

2024-present: Staff Scientist

Carnegie Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory

2023-2024: Postdoctoral Researcher

Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

Research Mentor: Professor Pincelli Hull.

2020-2023: NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow

Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

Research Mentor: Professor Pincelli Hull. Award abstract

Publications

Westerhold, T., Agnini, C., Anagnostou, E., Hilgen, F., Hönisch, B., Meckler, A.N., Pälike, H., Wade, B., Sosdian, S., Kasbohm, J. (revised). Timing is everything. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Thomas, E., Hull, P. (2024). High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum & a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores. Geology. link, pdf

Condon, D., Schoene, B., Schmitz, M., Schaltegger, U., Ickert, R., 30 coauthors including Kasbohm, J. (2024). Recommendations for the Reporting and Interpretation of Isotope Dilution U-Pb Geochronological Information. GSA Bulletin. link, pdf

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Mark, D., Murray, J., Reidel, S., Szymanowski, D., Barford, D., Barry, T. (2023). Eruption history of the Columbia River Basalt Group constrained by high-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 617, 118269. link, pdf

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Maclennan, S., Evans, D.A.D., Weiss, B.P. (2023). Paleogeography and high-precision geochronology of the Fortescue Group, Pilbara, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 394, 107114. link, pdf IAVCEI Large Igneous Province of the Month, June 2023

Reidel, S.P., Ross, M.E., Kasbohm, J. (2023). The Nenana Magnetite lava flow, Alaska Range, Alaska. Geoscience Canada, 50(2), 53-71. link, pdf

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Montanari, A., Coccioni, R. (2021). High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Miocene Bisciaro Formation, Contessa Valley, Italy: A case study for requisite radiometric calibration of bio- and magnetostratigraphy. Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 576, 1-11. link, pdf

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Burgess, S. (2021). Radiometric constraints on the timing, tempo, and effects of large igneous province emplacement. In Large Igneous Provinces: A Driver of Global Environmental and Biotic Changes. AGU Geophysical Monograph 255, review invited by editor Richard Ernst. link, pdf

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B. (2018). Rapid eruption of the Columbia River flood basalt and correlation with the mid-Miocene climate optimum. Science Advances 4, eaat8223. link, pdf
Princeton University press release covered by Science Daily, Phys.org, Technology.org, and others; AGI Earth magazine article; IAVCEI Large Igneous Province of the Month, October 2018

Blättler, C.L., Kump, L.R., Fischer, W.W., Paris, G., Kasbohm, J.J., & Higgins, J.A. (2017). Constraints on ocean carbonate chemistry and pCO2 in the Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic. Nature Geoscience 10, 41-45. link, pdf
Field photo featured in the issue’s Table of Contents

Kasbohm, J., Evans, D.A., Panzik, J.E., Hofmann, M., & Linnemann, U. (2016). Palaeomagnetic and geochronological data from Late Mesoproterozoic redbed sedimentary rocks on the western margin of Kalahari craton. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 424, SP424-4. link, pdf

Panzik, J.E., Evans, D.A.D., Kasbohm, J.J., Hanson, R., Gose, W., & Desormeau, J. (2016). Using palaeomagnetism to determine late Mesoproterozoic palaeogeographic history and tectonic relations of the Sinclair terrane, Namaqua orogen, Namibia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 424, SP424-10. link, pdf

Other Publications

Kasbohm, J., (2022). Flood basalt buildup warms climate. News & Views for Nature Geoscience 15, 342-343. link, pdf

Awards

2020-2023: NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, $261,000

2013-2018: NSF Graduate Fellowship, $120,000

2018: Geoscience Student Research Fellowship, Princeton Dept. of Geosciences, $4000

2013-2017: Centennial Fellowship, Princeton University Graduate School, $16,000

2016: Walbridge Fund Graduate Award, Princeton Environmental Institute, $10,000

2012: Alan S. Tetelman 1958 Fellowship for International Research in the Sciences, Yale College Science & Engineering Research, $3000

2012: Karen Von Damm ‘77 Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Geology & Geophysics, Yale Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, $2500

2012: Jeffrey Lewis Summer Research & Travel Fellowship, Yale College Center for International and Professional Experience, $4000

Honors

2023: EPS-IDEA Prize, Yale Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Committee

2020: Geosciences Service and Outreach Award for Graduate Students, Princeton Dept. of Geosciences, $400. Award citation

2020: AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, $250

2013: William R. Belknap Prize, Yale Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, $500

2009-2012: Thomas J. Watson Memorial Scholarship, IBM, $8000

2012: Samuel Lewis Penfield Prize, Yale Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, $1000

2012: American Institute of Professional Geologists National Scholarship, $1000

Invited Talks

2025: Smithsonian Institution Paleobiology, Department Seminar

2025: George Mason University, Geology Seminar

2025: Smithsonian Institution Mineral Sciences, Department Seminar

2024: Harvard-Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar, Middle Miocene Climate Informs Near Future Warming

2024: Yale University & Yale Peabody Museum, An Inclusive Future for Scientific Fieldwork, Invited Panelist

2024: Dartmouth College, Department Seminar

2024: Geological Society of Washington, Early Career Symposium

2024: UCLA, Department Seminar

2023: Texas A&M University, Department Seminar

2023: COOL-FRES Climate and Tectonics Workshop at MIT, Presentation

2023: Carnegie Institution for Science Earth and Planets Laboratory, Seminar

2023: Rutgers University, Department Colloquium

2022: University of Southern California, Department Seminar

2022: College of William & Mary, Departmental Seminar

2022: Yale University, Postdoc Seminar

2020: Yale University, Postdoc Seminar

2019: Princeton University, Solid Earth Brown Bag Seminar

2019: Boise State University, Department Seminar

2019: City College of New York, Seminar

2019: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University), Geochemistry Seminar

2012: Yale University, Geophysics Special Seminar

Published and Presented Abstracts

(* Invited)

Kasbohm, J., Jurikova, H., Holbourn, A., Planavsky, N.J., Rae, J.W.B., Hull, P.M. (2024). Testing the Role of Large Igneous Province Volcanism in the Miocene Climate Optimum with a New Boron Isotope Record from the Western Pacific Warm Pool. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Mark, D., Murray, J., Reidel, S., Szymanowski, D., Barford, D., Barry, T., Black, B., Eguchi, J. (2024).* Eruption history of the Columbia River Basalt Group constrained by high-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Thomas, E., Hull, P. (2024). High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum & a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs.

Kasbohm, J., Jurikova, H., Schoene, B., Holbourn, A., Planavsky, N.J., Rae, J.W.B., Hull, P.M. (2023).* Calibrating timescales and measuring pCO2 to test the role of large igneous province volcanism in the Miocene Climate Optimum. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Long, M.D., Kasbohm, J. (2023). Safety, Equity, and Inclusion in Fieldwork: Experiences from Yale EPS. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Mark, D., Murray, J., Reidel, S., Szymanowski, D., Barford, D., Barry, T. (2023). Eruption history of the Columbia River Basalt Group constrained by high-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Gordon Research Conference on Geochronology.

Kasbohm, J., Jurikova, H., Schoene, B., Holbourn, A., Planavsky, N.J., Rae, J.W.B., Hull, P.M. (2023).* Calibrating timescales and measuring pCO2 to test the role of LIP volcanism in the Miocene Climate Optimum. Goldschmidt Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Mark, D., Murray, J., Reidel, S.P., Hull, P.M. (2022). Refining Age Models of Columbia River Basalt Emplacement and the Miocene Climate Optimum with High-Precision Geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Gibson, T., Liu, J., Westacott, S., Long, M.D. (2022). Broadening Departmental Participation to Implement IDEAs in Yale EPS. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Maclennan, S., Evans, D.A.D., Weiss, B.P. (2022). Paleogeography and high-precision geochronology of the Neoarchean Fortescue Group, Pilbara, Western Australia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Burgess, S., Hull, P. (2022).* Radiometric constraints on the timing, tempo, and effects of large igneous province emplacement. Goldschmidt Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Murray, J., Reidel, S.P., Hull, P. (2021). Comparing high-precision timelines of Columbia River Basalt emplacement and the Miocene Climate Optimum with U-Pb zircon geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Montanari, A., Coccioni, R., Hull, P. (2021). Revising age models for Miocene deep-sea sediments with U-Pb zircon geochronology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Hull, P. (2021).* Assessing the connection between Columbia River basalt volcanism and the Miocene Climate Optimum with zircon geochronology. Northeast Geobiology Symposium.

Kasbohm, J., Long, M., Westacott, S., Millikin, A.E.G. (2021). URGE-ing IDEAs forward in Yale EPS. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs & American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Hull, P. (2020). Assessing the Timescale of the Miocene Climate Optimum with U-Pb Zircon Geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B. (2020).* Assessing Eruptive Tempo of the Columbia River Basalt Group and Recalibrating Miocene Climate Records with Zircon Geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., Montanari, A., Coccioni, R. (2020). Assessing the Suitability of a Burdigalian GSSP in the Miocene Bisciaro Formation, Contessa Valley, Italy with U-Pb Zircon Geochronology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B. (2019). Assessing Eruptive Tempo of the Columbia River Basalt Group and Recalibrating Miocene Climate Records with Zircon Geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts. * Outstanding Student Paper Award

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B. (2019). Calibrating the Miocene Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale with Zircon Geochronology. Gordon Research Conference on Geochronology.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B. (2018). Assessing Correlation of Columbia River Flood Basalt Volcanism with the Mid-Miocene Climate Optimum through Zircon Geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene B., (2018). U-Pb Zircon Ages Correlate the Columbia River Flood Basalt with the Mid-Miocene Climate Optimum. Goldschmidt Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., (2017). Assessing Causes and Consequences of Columbia River Basalt Volcanism with Zircon Geochronology. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., (2016). U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of the Columbia River Basalt. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Maloof, A., Schoene, B., Weiss, B. (2015). Constraining Rates of Neoarchean Plate Motion through Magnetostratigraphy and High-Precision Geochronology of the Fortescue Group, Pilbara, Western Australia. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Kasbohm, J., Maloof, A., Schoene, B. (2015). Volcanostratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Archean Fortescue Group, Pilbara, Western Australia. Northeastern Geobiology Conference.

Kasbohm, J.J., Panzik, J.E., Evans, D.A.D. (2012). A paleomagnetic reanalysis of the Auborus Formation, Namibia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs 44(7):598.

Panzik, J.E., Kasbohm, J.J., Evans, D.A.D., Hanson, R.E., Gose, W.A. (2012). Using palaeomagnetism to determine palaeogeographic history and tectonic relations of the Sinclair terrane, Namibia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts and Programs 44(7):598.

Sessions Convened

AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington, DC. Co-Conveners: Andrea Giuliani, Lorenzo Tavazzani, Hayden Dalton. “Advancements in Geochronology at All Scales”

Women in EPS Day 2024, New Haven, CT. Co-Conveners: Anieke Brombacher, Silvina Slagter, Roxanne Armfield, Elly Goetz, Isabella Chiaravalloti Jennifer Kosty, Jordan Wostbrock, Maureen Long. Day-long research symposium highlighting work of women and gender minorities in Yale EPS

Women in EPS Day 2023, New Haven, CT. Co-Conveners: Alexie Millikin, Silvina Slagter, Roxanne Armfield, Jordan Wostbrock, Maureen Long. Day-long research symposium highlighting work of women and gender minorities in Yale EPS

AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL. Co-Conveners: James Eguchi, Benjamin Black
“Turning Earth Inside Out: Large Igneous Provinces, Mantle Plumes, and the Co-Evolution of Earth’s Interior and Surface Environments”.

GSA Annual Meeting 2022, Denver, CO. Co-Conveners: Alexie Millikin, Timothy Gibson, Alan Rooney
“Radiogenic Isotopes as Tracers of Geologic Processes: Dates, Rates, and Proxies”.

GSA Annual Meeting 2021, Portland, OR. Co-Convener: Alexander Lowe
“Assessing Causes, Consequences, and Time Scales of Miocene Climate and Environmental Change”.

Field Experience

2018–2019: Italy, 3 weeks. Miocene geochronology PhD Thesis research; Agouron Institute mercury sampling.

2015–2016: Northwest USA, 6 weeks. Columbia River Basalt Group PhD Thesis research.

2015: California, 1 week. Structural Geology class trip.

2013–2014: Australia, 14 weeks. Fortescue Group PhD Thesis research.

2014: Bahamas, 1 week. Sedimentology class trip.

2011–2012: Namibia, 8 weeks. Geology & Geophysics Senior Thesis research.

2012: Peru, 4 weeks. Spanish translator and field assistant on seismology data collection trip.

2012: Arizona, 1 week. Whole Lava Love volcanic mapping field course.

2012: Dominica & Martinique, 1 week. Natural Disasters class trip.

2012 Spain, 4 weeks. Humanities Senior Essay research.

2011: South Africa & Namibia, 3 weeks. Regional Perspectives on Global Geoscience class trip.

2011: Rome, 5 weeks. Humanities Senior Essay research.

2010: Sicily, 2 weeks. Global Tectonics class trip.

Environmental Collaborations

2024 - : Carnegie Science Climate and Resilience Hub, Member. Collaborating as a principal investigator in an organization-wide center working to facilitate, enable, and scale research on climate and sustainability.

2021: Yale Carbon Containment Lab, Postdoctoral Affiliate. Consulted for Yale School of the Environment lab pursuing geologic carbon containment in the Columbia River Basalt Group. Advised on the regional geology, volcanology, and carbon storage potential.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2024 & Fall 2023: EPS490/491: Senior Thesis, Assistant Instructor.

Met 11 students in their first and second semester of senior thesis work in weekly lab meeting format to ensure progress. Led workshops on planning and executing effective scientific writing and presentations.

Spring 2017: GEO103: Natural Disasters, Assistant in Instruction
Led two lab sections (for 12 and 15 students) and graded midterms for 80 student course for non-science majors, the Department of Geosciences’ second-largest class.

Fall 2016: GEO102: Climate: Past, Present, and Future, Assistant in Instruction
Led lab section for 15 students and assisted in grading problem sets and exams for 230 student course for non-science majors, the Department of Geosciences’ largest class.

Undergraduate Mentorship

2019: Liam O’Connor, Princeton Class of 2020, lab work at Princeton; now an MS student at University of Arizona Department of Geosciences

2017: Kyle Duffey, Princeton Class of 2019, Fieldwork in Columbia River Basalt Group, lab work at Princeton; now an Operations Manaager at Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School

2016: Samuel Bartusek, Princeton Class of 2020, Fieldwork in Columbia River Basalt Group, lab work at Princeton; now a PhD candidate at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University)

2015–2016: Joshua Murray, Princeton Class of 2018, Fieldwork in Columbia River Basalt Group, lab work at Princeton; now a PhD candidate at MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

2014: Eric Bolton, Princeton Class of 2015, Fieldwork in Pilbara, Western Australia; now a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Applied XL

2013: Alison Campion, Princeton Class of 2016, Fieldwork in Pilbara, Western Australia; now a a PhD student at Tufts University Economics and Public Policy Program

Leadership & Service

2024- GSA Geochronology Division Geologic Timescale Committee, Member.

2024–  EPL Fellowship Committee, Member.

2024– EPL Seminar Committee, Member.

2024–  International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification, Voting Member.

2021-2024: Womxn in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Yale (WEPSY), Founder and Coordinator

2020-2022: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Committee, Postdoctoral Representative

2022: Fieldwork Working Group, Founder and Coordinator

2021: Unlearning Racism in the Geosciences (URGE), Pod Leader

2019-2020: Department of Geosciences Diversity Committee, Graduate Student Liaison

2016-2019: Princeton Women in Geosciences, Leadership Team

2016-2019: Forbes College, Princeton University, Resident Graduate Student

2013-2019: Princeton Enviornmental Institute Summer Internship Program, Research Mentor

2017: GeoGrad 2017 Alumni Field Trip, Student Representative

2012: Yale College Admissions, STEM Likely Recruiter

2009-2011: Demos, Yale undergraduate elementary school science outreach volunteer

Press

Carnegie Science, Kasbohm et al. 2024 covered in “Probing the role of volcanism in ancient climate warming”

Ars Technica, Kasbohm et al. 2024 covered in “How did volcanism trigger climate change before the eruptions started?”

Carnegie Science, “Geochronologist Jennifer Kasbohm joins Carnegie Science as new Staff Scientist”

Wired, comment for “An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs”

Ars Technica, Kasbohm et al. 2023 covered in “Early plate tectonics was surprisingly speedy”

ScienceNews, comment for “Ancient zircons may record the dawn of plate tectonics.”

Eos.org, comment for “The surprising greenhouse gas that caused volcanic summer.”

Workshops Attended

2021: Yale Scientific Teaching Course, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.

2021: EarthRates ’20-’21 All Hands Meeting, Virtual.

2020: Preparing for an Academic Career, Earth Educator Rendezvous.

2019: Agouron Institute Advanced Geobiology Field School, Italy.

2012: Whole Lava Love, Arizona.

Skills

Methodology: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry of U-Pb in zircon using chemical abrasion and isotope dilution, paleomagnetic analysis, δ13C and δ18O stable isotope analysis, mineral separation.

Additional Language Proficiency: Advanced Spanish

Certifications: Wilderness First Aid (2022)

Taekwondo: Third Degree Black Belt (2009), Second Degree Black Belt (2005), First Degree Black Belt (2003), Yale Club Team Captain (2010-2012)

Memberships

2015- American Geophysical Union

2013- Phi Beta Kappa

2012- Geological Society of America

2020-2023 National Association of Geoscience Teachers