CURRICULUM VITAE

 

NAME:    Paul Aharon (Aaron)

PERSONAL DATA: Married, two children.
NATIONALITY: Citizen of USA

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

1973 - 1976 Research Geologist, Department of Geology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1980 - 1982 Queen's Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

1982 - 1985 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1983 Visiting Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York

1985 - 1989 Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1987 Research Scientist, Geotechnical Institute, Vienna, Austria

1987 - 1992 Adjunct Professor, Museum of Geoscience, Louisiana State University

1988 - 1989 Visiting Professor, Max-Planck Institute für Chemie, Mainz, West Germany

1990 Docent, Institute of Geology, University of Bologna, Italy

1989 – 2001 Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, LSU.

1997 Forchheimer Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1999 Visiting Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

2001 – present Professor and Endowed Ray E. Loper Chair in Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Alabama         

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Paleoclimate studies based on Speleothems and Karst; Geology and Geochemistry of Carbonates and Evaporites; Rapid climate events in the Quaternary; Ocean-based gas-hydrates; Isotope Tracers in Hydrology; Geological applications of stable isotopes of C, O, H, N, S; Sr and U-Series isotope systematics.

FIELD STUDIES:

Presently I am conducting studies of karst and caves in the South Pacific and Southeastern USA.

Previously I conducted field investigations along the Red Sea, New Guinea, Australia, Southwest Pacific, Costa Rica, Austria, Gulf Coast (USA), Gulf of Mexico, Italy. Conducted submersible dives on the Gulf of Mexico slope and deep basin with Johnson-Sea Link (1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997) and Alvin (1990; 2000; 2001).

 

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

1982 - 1987: Established a state of the art stable isotope laboratory at LSU.

1984 - 1985: Training Program for Geologists from the Geological Survey of Bangladesh - funded by the Asian Development Bank.

1990 - 1991: Teaching Program in Isotope Geology and Stratigraphy for students and faculty at the Institute of Geology, University of Bologna, Italy - funded by the University of Bologna.

1994 Organized the first UNESCO international conference (GEOSUB-94) on submarine geology (Palinuro, Italy)

1996 Leader of Geology Program, NOAA panel of proposals

1997 Organized the NATO-sponsored International Workshop "Hydrocarbon See page and Chemosynthesis in Tethyan Relic Basins: Products, Processes and Causes" in Bologna, Italy (June 23-26, 1997).        

2000 Co-Organizer of the 6th International Conference "Gas in Marine Sediments: Geology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Applications". St. Petersburg, Russia. September 5-9.

2001-2003 Established a state of the art stable isotope laboratory at the University of Alabama.

 

MOST RECENT FUNDING, by AGENCIES (2001-2007)

Louisiana Sea Grant; NOAA/NURP; NSF; MMS; Alabama/ Mississippi Sea Grant; DOE; Earth Watch

 

GRADUATE RESEARCH ADVISORY:

At LSU I have directed six PhD dissertations, two MS theses, and two posdoctoral fellows. In addition, I served on 24 theses and dissertation committees in the Department and 10 dissertation committees on the LSU campus as the external examiner. Among these PhDs, I directly supervised the isotope studies of 6 candidates.

Since 2001 at the University of Alabama I graduated one MS and one PhD students. Presently I am advising three PhD students (two close to graduation) and one MS student, and I am serving in the committees of one MS and two PhD students in the Department of Geological Sciences.

 

 

 

 

 

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