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Miquela Ingalls is an Assistant Professor and Wilson Faculty Fellow in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State. Her research combines field geology and petrography with stable isotope geochemistry to improve the use of chemical sediments in tectonic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. She has a particular interest in terrestrial environments, focusing on how they have responded to globally warm periods in Earth’s history and how they might adapt to future warming. Her work also explores feedbacks involving tectonic uplift, weathering, and the marine-atmospheric carbon cycle, utilizing stable isotope analyses of carbonate rocks to reconstruct uplift, ancient oceans, and the chemical conditions necessary for early life. Current projects include studies on the carbonate-forming environments of the Precambrian and their potential parallels with Mars, the impact of chemical conditions on the evolution of early life, and the fates of wastewater in Florida's Keys. Miquela's research contributes to a better understanding of the chemical sediment archive and the geochemical signals recorded in microbial carbonate facies.
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