{"id":327,"date":"2017-12-19T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/?page_id=327"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:15:20","slug":"richard-a-stern","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/contact-us\/members\/richard-a-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard A. Stern"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM)
\nDepartment of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
\nCCIS L2-305
\nUniversity of Alberta
\nEdmonton, Alberta
\nCanada, T6G 2R3<\/p>\n

Tel: ++1-780-248-1063
\nrstern@ualberta.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

1984: B.Sc. (Hon) Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo
\n1989: Ph.D., Geochemistry, Stony Brook University, NY<\/p>\n

Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n

1989 \u2013 1991: Post-doc, Geological Survey of Canada, Geochronology laboratory
\n1991 \u2013 2003: Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Geochronology laboratory
\n2003 \u2013 2005: Associate Professor, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Western Australia
\n2005 \u2013 2008: Geochronology team leader, Geoscience Australia, Australian Government, Canberra
\n2008 \u2013 present: Managing Director, CCIM, University of Alberta<\/p>\n

Experience and research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 secondary ion mass spectrometry
\n\u2022 micro-analytical geochemistry
\n\u2022 methods development
\n\u2022 stable isotopes
\n\u2022 U-Pb geochronology<\/p>\n

My early education and student employment exposed me to a wide range of geological and geophysical topics with a strong emphasis on fieldwork. My B.Sc. thesis research first exposed me to analytical geochemistry, and I was hooked. I became immersed in wet chemistry, mass spectrometry, and trace element analysis during my doctoral research on igneous rocks. Joining the GSC as a post-doc led to a specialist role of applying radiogenic isotopes and TIMS U-Pb geochronology to field-based problems throughout Canada. In 1994, I was charged with bringing a SHRIMP ion probe to the GSC, and so began the second major phase of my career as a specialist in secondary ion mass spectrometry and U-Pb geochronology. Since then I have chased various types of ion probes around the world (SHRIMP, NanoSIMS, IMS1280), and have conducted research in U-Pb geochronology, stable isotopes, and trace elements with hundreds of scientists from diverse fields spanning geology, biology, archaeology, and materials science. My current passion is collaborating with others and ensuring the CCIM lab is the best in the world at what we do with SIMS, that is, micro-beam measurements of isotope ratios and elemental abundances in solid samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences CCIS L2-305 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2R3 Tel: ++1-780-248-1063 rstern@ualberta.ca Education 1984: B.Sc. (Hon) Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo 1989: Ph.D., Geochemistry, Stony Brook University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-327","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327\/revisions\/741"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/team-diamond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}