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Explore our interactive isotope data platform for visualizing δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O, and Δ₄₇ records across space and time. Access requires password while under review prior to publication.

Launch Isotope Data Viewer

Instrumentation and spaces for clumped-isotope mass spectrometry, microscopy, and sample preparation.

Kristin Bergmann

Kristin Bergmann

I grew up in Maryland and the United Kingdom and studied Geology at Carleton College, with a concentration in Environmental and Technological Studies. Field work first drew me in during summers studying hydrologic change in the southern Sierra Nevada. Before graduate school I worked with the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin and taught middle school science in New Jersey.

For my PhD at Caltech, I worked with John Grotzinger, John Eiler, and Woody Fischer, combining field and lab studies on Neoproterozoic and Ordovician stratigraphy. I then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a junior fellow, collaborating with Andy Knoll on early eukaryotic evolution. In 2015 I came to MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, where I now lead the Bergmann Carbonate Research Laboratory. My group investigates how carbonates record Earth’s climate in deep time and the co-evolution of life and environments.

Selected honors: Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, GSA Biogeosciences Early Career Award, and the Paul Grey Public Service Award from MIT’s PKG Center.

Current Lab Group Members

Our current interdisciplinary research team with expertise in geochemistry, sedimentology, and paleobiology.

Former Lab Group Members

Alumni of our research group who have moved on to the next stages of their scientific and professional journeys.

Bold = researcher in my group; [‡] = joint first author.

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