Earth science professor-in-exile. Formerly an assistant professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama and a post-doctoral research scientist in the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets at the University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests include climate change and the implications of warming on severe weather and the overall human condition, energy transition, conditions of early Earth during the initiation of life, constraining the amount of continental lithosphere through time, understanding the flux and timing of asteroids impacting the Earth-Moon system and the association with major extinction events, medical mineralogy, and the evolution of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau.
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Website discussing research in the fields of geology, geochemistry, geochronology and planetary science including work on impact craters and the evolution of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.
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Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki's website discussing research in the fields of geology, geochemistry, geochronology and planetary science including work on impact craters and the evolution of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.