Pete is from Los Angeles, CA and graduated from the University of Southern California (2018) with a BA in Earth Sciences, and minors in Environmental Chemistry and Chinese. While at USC, Pete’s undergraduate research focused on carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the End-Triassic mass extinction. He was also a participant in NASA JPL’s Visiting Student Research Program, contributing to Mars2020 work in PI Ken Williford’s Astrobiogeochemistry Lab.
Now at the University of Washington, Pete is a dual-title PhD student in Earth & Space Sciences and Astrobiology, working in PI Fang-Zhen Teng’s Non-traditional Isotope Lab.
Pete uses non-traditional stable isotope analysis to probe fluctuations in geochemical cycles surrounding mass extinction events, and how evidence of past life is left behind in the rock record.