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PhD in Geosciences, University of California - Riverside, June 2020

“An Organic Geochemical Approach to Understanding Microbial Community Dynamics During Paleoenvironmental Transitions”

B.S. in Geology, The College of William and Mary, May 2014

“Time-Averaging in Chesapeake Bay Mollusks: estimates based on amino acid racemization of Holocene Mulinia”

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California - Santa Barbara, 2023-present

Postdoctoral Associate, EOAS Institute, Rutgers University, 2020-2022

Associate Instructor, University of California - Riverside, 2020

2023-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California Santa Barbara with Dr. Morgan Raven

2020-2022 Postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University with Dr. Kat Dawson

2020-2022 NASA Enigma Research Team (Rutgers University)

2014-2020 Graduate student researcher at UCR with Dr. Gordon Love

2017 International Geobiology Course

2012-2014 Undergraduate student researcher at William and Mary with Dr. Rowan Lockwood

2013 Undergraduate researcher, NASA Student Airborne Research Program

As Primary Instructor

Spring 2020    Headlines in the History of Life, University of California, Riverside

Lecture and laboratory course; moved online for 2020. Fundamentals of science, evolution and Earth history, and the fossil record. Enrollment: 315 students

As Guest Instructor

Spring 2024    Research Methods, University of California Santa Barbara

Designed and taught introductory research and laboratory methods for class projects on stratigraphy and geochemistry of the Monterey Formation

Spring 2022    Environmental Biology, Rutgers University

Developed and led environmental field trip and laboratory activities including eutrophication, biologic hazards, microplastics, and microbial metabolism.

Spring 2021    Environmental Biology, Rutgers University

                        as above

As Teaching Assistant

Spring 2015    Headlines in the History of Life, University of California, Riverside

Winter 2015    Natural Hazards and Disasters, University of California, Riverside

Spring 2014    Paleontology, The College of William and Mary

2024 May       

R/V Pelican, Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico, mCDR research

CTD water sampling, sediment coring, benthic ops

2023 Nov.

R/V Point Sur, Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

CTD ops, genomics, benthic ops, CO2 sequestration

2023 October

R/V Rachel Carson, Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia

CTD water sampling, multicoring, particle trap deployment, McLane pumps

2023 July

R/V Point Sur, Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

CTD water sampling, multicoring, CO2 sequestration

2023 June

R/V Shearwater, Santa Barbara Basin, CA:

Science crew; CTD water sampling, sediment multicoring

2023 April

R/V Pelican, Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

CTD water sampling, sediment coring, benthic ops

2023 Gulf of Mexico: research cruise on the R/V Pelican - water chemistry, sediment coring, benthic experiments

2021 Appalachian Basin (PA, MD, WV, VA): Clinton Group, Silurian (430 Ma)

2021 Cheesequake National Park, NJ: Sediment coring, environmental sampling

2021 Pinelands, NJ: Sediment cores, environmental sampling

2020 – 2022 Raritan River, NJ: Sediment cores, environmental sampling

2019 – 2020 Joshua Tree National Park. CA: General geology, environment

2017 – 2020 Marble Mountains, CA: Stratigraphy, paleontology, volcanoes

2018 Anza Borrego Desert, CA: Stratigraphy, paleontology

2017 Ventura, CA (Monterey Formation): Geobiology, environmental chemistry

2017 Mono Lake, CA: Stratigraphy, lake sediment core sampling

2016 Arrow Canyon Range, Great Basin: Paleontology

2015 – 2020 Death Valley, CA: Stratigraphy, geobiology

2014 – 2016 Appalachian Basin, OH: Stratigraphy, geochemistry, and paleontology

2013 – 2014 Chesapeake Bay, VA: Core sampling and fossil I.D.

GC-MS

Thermo ISQ 7000-Trace 1310 GC-MS; Agilent 5970 GC-MS; Waters AutoSpec MRM-GC-MS; Shimadzu GC-14A gas chromatograph-FID

EA-IRMS

Elementar Isoprime 100 IRMS w/Vario Select Elemental Analyser and TraceGas system;

Nu Horizon IRMS w/Vario Select Elemental Analyser;

Ion Chromotography

Dionex Aquion Ion Chromatography Dual Tower; Metrohm Ion Chromatograph

Other

Picarro CRDS Water Isotope Analyzer

Strata Catalytic Hydropyrolysis Rig

Zeiss Axio Imager Epifluorescence Microscope

[7] Raven, M. R., Evans, N. C., Martinez, A.M., Phillips, A.A. (preprint 2024) Big Decisions from Small Experiments: Observational strategies for biomass-based marine CO2 removal. Submitted to Environmental Research Letters. 10.22541/essoar.172711284.45251635/v1

[6] Rasmussen, K. L., Thieringer, P. H., Nevadomski, S., Martinez, A. M., Dawson, K. S., Corsetti, F. A., Zheng, X., Yiwen L., Chen, X.; Celestian, A. J.; Berelson, W. M., Rollins, N. E., and Spear, J. R. (2024). Living to Lithified: Construction and Preservation of Silicified Biomarkers, Geobiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12620

[5] Raven, M. R., Crotteau, M.; Evans, N. C; Girard, Z; Martinez, A.M.; Young, I; and Valentine, D.. Biomass Storage in Anoxic Marine Basins: Initial estimates of geochemical impacts and CO2 sequestration capacity. In Press at AGU Advances.

[4] Boyer, D., Martinez, A., Evans, S., Cohen, P., Haddad, E., Pippenger, K., Love, G., Droser, M. (2021). Living on the Edge: the impact of prolonged oxygen stress on life in the Late Devonian. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110226

[3] Stüeken, E. E., Martinez, A., Love, G., Olsen, P. E., Bates, S., & Lyons, T. W. (2019). Effects of pH on redox proxies in a Jurassic rift lake: Implications for interpreting environmental records in deep time. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.014

[2] Martinez, A. M., Boyer, D. L., Droser, M. L., Barrie, C., & Love, G. D. (2019). A stable and productive marine microbial community was sustained through the end-Devonian Hangenberg Crisis within the Cleveland Shale of the Appalachian Basin, United States. Geobiology, 17(1), 27–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12314

[1] Haddad, E. E., Tuite, M. L., Martinez, A. M., Williford, K., Boyer, D. L., Droser, M. L., & Love, G. D. (2016). Lipid biomarker stratigraphic records through the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary: comparison of high-and low-latitude epicontinental marine settings. Organic Geochemistry, 98, 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2016.05.007

Conference talks

Martinez, A.M., Evans, N., Conway, G., Crotteau, M., Dawson, K.S., Doyle-Jacobson, K., Karagiannis, M., Pacatte, M., and M.R. Raven 2024. Exploration of the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico, USA, as a Potential Site for Carbon Sequestration via Biomass Storage. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024 (upcoming, accepted abstract).

Martinez, A.M., Ramos Padilla, N., Dawson, and K.S. Dawson 2022. Get a Whiff of that Sulfur: using monodeuterated methane to track biogeochemical cycles in a tidal river. 29th Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium. University of Delaware, USA.

Martinez, A.M., Boyer, D.L., Droser, M.L., and G.D. Love 2019. Integrated Geochemical and Paleontological Assessment of end-Devonian Marine Communities from the Appalachian Basin, USA. 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry. Gothenburg, Sweden.

Martinez, A.M., Boyer, D.L., Droser, M.L., and G.D. Love 2019. Intermixed Messages: integrated geochemical and paleontological analysis of end-Devonian marine communities in the Appalachian Basin, USA. 11th North American Paleontological Convention; University of California-Riverside, California.

Martinez, A.M., Boyer, D.L., Droser, M.L., and G.D. Love, 2016. Deadly Waters: paleoenvironmental analysis of the Late Devonian Hangenberg Bioevent in the Appalachian Basin. Geological Society of America National Meeting; Denver, Colorado.

Martinez, A.M., and R. Lockwood, 2014. Estimating Time-Averaging in the Chesapeake Bay via Amino Acid Racemization of Holocene Mollusks. Geological Society of America National Meeting; Vancouver, British Columbia.

Poster presentations

Martinez, A.M., Kirtland Turner, S., and Love, G.D. 2019. Think Green: Eocene Azolla blooms and their effects on global carbon cycling; 16th Southern California Geobiology Symposium. California Institute of Technology; California.

Martinez, A.M., Tischer, J., Warter, V., Stamps, B. W., Trower, E. J., Fischer, W. W., and Geobiology Course 2017. Tar Seeps and Sulfide Springs: Sulfur Cycling within an Extreme (Stream) environment, Santa Paula Creek, Ventura, CA. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Seattle; Washington.

Martinez, A.M., Droser, M.L., and Love, G.D., 2017. Identity Crisis: Detecting the Hangenberg Biocrisis in the Cleveland Shale of the Appalachian Basin, USA. 14th Southern California Geobiology Symposium; University of Southern California, California.

Martinez, A.M., Droser, M.L., and G. D. Love, 2016. Lipid biomarker records through the Hangenberg Bioevent of the Late Devonian in the Appalachian Basin, Ohio. 13th Southern California Geobiology Symposium, California Institute of Technology, California.

Martinez, A.M., Boyer, D.L., Love, G.D., and M.L. Droser, 2015. Multiproxy Characterization of the Cleveland shale in the Appalachian Basin. Geological Society of America National Meeting; Baltimore, Maryland.

Martinez, A.M., and R. Lockwood, 2014. Time-averaging in Chesapeake Bay mollusks: estimates based on amino acid racemization of Holocene Mulinia. 10th North American Paleontological Convention; University of Florida, Florida.

Glade, R., Martinez, A.M., Grigsby, S., and Ustin, S., 2013. Relationships between Topography and Leaf Area Index in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA. American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, California.

Grigsby, S., Martinez, A.M., Hopkins, A. J., and Ustin, S., 2013. Physical Properties of Forest Canopies using Airborne LiDAR; American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, California.