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Nicole Fernandez holds a Bachelor of Arts in Earth Sciences from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She began her appointment as an Assistant Professor at Cornell’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in January 2022. Before joining the faculty, she was a Cornell Provost’s Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow and conducted research abroad in France as a visiting scientist at ENSEGID (School of Environment, Georesources, and Sustainable Development Engineering at the Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux). Nicole's research interests lie in low temperature geochemistry, combining experimental and numerical modeling methods to constrain global water elemental cycles and the feedback responses to unprecedented land use changes and rapidly changing global climate. A primary focus of her work is the study of fluid-rock interactions under near-surface conditions and their manifestation across spatiotemporal scales at the mineral-water interface and regional scale river basins. She employs a variety of geochemical tools, including stable isotopes and trace elements, as well as environmental tracers, to fully characterize the diversity of biogeochemical and hydrologic processes that shape dynamic landscapes and ecosystems characterizing the Earth’s surface.
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