
Robert N. Ulrich
PhD Student
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
Geology 2640
My general research interests revolve around understanding how crystals grow and, more specifically, how living things grow crystals (think: our bones, a lobster’s shell, a plant’s phytolith). This process is called ‘biomineralization’. At UCLA, I am studying biomineralization using different geochemical tracers, including trace and minor elements as well as carbon, oxygen, and “clumped” isotopes, and integrating them using data science techniques.
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