Maria J. Harrison

Dr. Marilyn Fogel uses a wide range of expertise-including biology, chemistry, geology and astrobiology-to study distinctive isotopes of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen to trace various phenomena tied to modern and fossilized ecosystems. She received her B. S. in Biology from Penn State and a Ph.D. in Botany and Marine Science from the University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. Fogel joined the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory as a Carnegie Corporation Fellow in 1977. In 1979, she became a Senior Scientist and Staff Member at the Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory where she mentored postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates, who became Professors, Deans, and Department Chairs. Since 1998, Fogel has worked on astrobiology as a Member of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute including studies to examining the isotopic patterns in meteorites. In 2013, Marilyn joined the Life and Environmental Sciences faculty at the University of California’s newest campus in Merced and served as Chair, established a state of the art stable isotope laboratory, and increased faculty with interdisciplinary hires. Fogel joined UC Riverside in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences departments in Fall 2016 and is creating activities and ideas for the EDGE (Environmental Dynamics and Geo-Ecology) Institute, including building of the EDGE Institute laboratory working with colleagues to support Geobiology and biogeochemistry research. Fogel holds the inaugural Endowed Wilbur W. Mayhew Chair of Geoecology and is a Distinguished Professor of Geoecology.