Dr.McKENZIE, Ryan

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU

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Research/Teaching interests :

Sedimentary Geology
Tectonic-Climatic Interactions
Biodiversity and Mass Extinctions
Earth System Evolution

Publications

McKenzie, N.R., Smye, A.J., Hegde, V., Stockli, D.F., 2018, Continental growth histories revealed by detrital zircon trace elements: a case study from India. Geology.
Colleps, C.L.*, McKenzie, N.R., Stockli, D.F., Singh, B.P., Webb, A.A.G., Hughes, N.C., Myrow, P.M, and Horton, B.K., 2018, Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometric constraints on Himalayan thrust belt exhumation, bedrock weathering, and Cenozoic seawater chemistry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. v. 19, 257–271.
McKenzie, N.R., Horton, B.K., Loomis, S.E., Stockli, D.F., Planavsky, N.J., and Lee, C-T.A., 2016, Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse–greenhouse variability. Science. v. 352, p. 444-447.
Lee, C-T.A., Yeung, L.A., McKenzie, N.R., Yokoyama, Y., Ozaki, K., and Lenardic, 2016, Two-step rise of atmospheric oxygen linked to the growth of continents. Nature Geoscience. v.9, no.6, p417-424.
McKenzie, N.R., Hughes, N.C., Gill, B.J., and Myrow, P.M., 2014, Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic climate and metazoan biodiversity. Geology. v. 42, p. 127-130.

Awards and honors

Kavli Fellow. US National Academy of Sciences & Kavli Foundation (2016)
Flint Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Yale (2014-2016)
Jackson Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dept. of Geosciences, UT Austin (2012-2014)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geobiology (offered but declined for UT). Agouron Institute (2012)
DissertationYear Fellowship. UC Riverside (2012)
Blanchard Fellowship. Dept. of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside (2010)
John Dunham Field Scholarship. Dept. of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside (2008)
Walter Harris Summer Field Scholarship. Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA (2006)
Undergraduate Research Award. Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA (2005)
Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation. Dept. of Eco. & Evol. Biology, UCLA (2005)