Department of Geology, University of Vermont	Laura E. Webb	Phone: 1-802-656-8136, Fax: 1-802-656-0045
180 Colchestester Ave, Burlington VT 05405	Assistant Professor	E-mail: Laura.Webb@uvm.edu

Background

EDUCATION
PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1999.
BS in Geology, University of California, Los Angeles,1994.

APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Fall 2008–present
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, June 2004–present.
Syracuse University Noble Gas Isotopic Research Laboratory Manager, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2000–2008.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Over ten years of technical experience in noble gas thermochronology, including:
-MAP 216 and Micromass 5400 noble gas mass spectrometers for 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology
-Balzers Prisma QME 200 quadrupole mass spectrometer for (U-Th)/He thermochronology
-Design, construction, and maintenance of ultra-high vacuum extraction lines
-Management of radioactive materials and isotopic inventories
-Other analytical experience includes: electron microprobe, ion microprobe, raman spectroscopy, quartz fabric analysis.

FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE
2008: D’Entrecasteaux Islands, southeastern Papua New Guinea.
2004 & 2006–2007: East Gobi Fault Zone, southeastern Mongolia.
2002: Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane, Shandong peninsula, China.
1997–1998: southern and southeastern Mongolia.
1994–1996: Qinling–Dabie orogen, China.
1992–1993: three undergraduate field courses completed at UCLA, including a two-month field camp in the eastern Sierra Nevada.

PREVIOUS RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
40Ar/39Ar Laboratory Manager, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1999–2000.
Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University, 1994–1999: "Exhumation of high and ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the Qinling–Dabie Orogen, eastern China and the Yagan–Onch Hayrhan metamorphic core complex, southern Mongolia." Committee: M.O. McWilliams, B.R. Hacker (UCSB), W.G. Ernst, and S.A. Graham.
Staff Geologist, American Geotechnical, Anaheim, California, 1994.