Robert N. Ulrich

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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