Carl R. Swindle

Carl R. Swindle

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles.  My research interests include 1) assessment of the risks and consequences of wildfires in California and their influences on ecological processes, 2) interpretation and preservation of environmentally induced geochemical signatures in natural samples, and 3) development of algorithms and computational models to depict natural processes.

I completed my BS (with highest honors) in Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018 and my MS (2020) and my PhD (2023) in Geology at California Institute of Technology.  My work involves 1) application and production of data-driven computational methods to calibrate and validate Earth system models, 2) development and implementation of laboratory techniques to make high precision geochemical measurements, and 3) field work to collect samples for future analysis and document observations in the natural world.