Naomi E. Levin
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
office: 123 Olin Hall
email: nlevin3 at jhu.edu

             
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geology, University of Utah, 2008
Thesis Title: “Isotopic Records of Plio-Pleistocene Climate and Environments in Eastern Africa”
Thesis committee: Thure E. Cerling, Francis H. Brown, James R. Ehleringer, Jay Quade, Edward J. Zipser

M.S., Geology, University of Arizona, 2002
Thesis Title: “Isotopic Evidence for Plio-Pleistocene Environmental Change at Gona, Ethiopia”
Thesis committee: Jay Quade, David L. Dettman, Andrew S. Cohen

B.S., Geology, Stanford University, 2000

B.A., Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University, 2000
Thesis Title: “Artifacts on the Landscape: Post-depositional modification and movement of surface artifacts in Korinthia, Greece”
Thesis advisor: John W. Rick


POSITIONS HELD
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, July 2009-present

Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Sept. 2008-June 2009
Supervisor: John M. Eiler

Research Assistant, University of Utah, 2004, 2006-2008
Supervisor: Thure E. Cerling

NSF GK12 Graduate Fellow, University of Utah, 2005-2006

Stokes Academic Scholar, University of Utah, 2003-2004

Technician, Paleomagnetics Laboratory, University of Arizona, 2003
Supervisor: Robert F. Butler

NSF GK12 Graduate Fellow, University of Arizona, 2001-2002


FIELD EXPERIENCE
Gona, Afar Region, Ethiopia: mapping, stratigraphy, basin architecture, and stable isotopic studies of fossil teeth and soil carbonates, Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project, 2001-present.

Turkana Basin, northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia: isotopic studies of fossil teeth and soil carbonates, and stratigraphy of archaeological sites, 2002-present.

Ethiopia and Kenya: collections of modern waters, plants, and mammal teeth for isotopic study, 2004-present.

Olorgesailie, Kenya: mapping, stratigraphy and field course instruction, 2002 & 2004.

Corinth, Greece: soil and geomorphology mapping, Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey, 1999 & 2001.

Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana: Indiana University Field Camp, 2000.

Chavín de Huántar, Peru: archaeological excavations and archaeoastronomy, Stanford Chavín Project, 1998.

Olympic National Park, Washington: back country park ranger, 1997.


LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
Cerling Stable Isotope Facility, University of Utah: lab manager, supervised student and visitor use of the lab; responsible for lab maintenance, on and off line extractions, dual inlet and continuous flow IRMS measurements of carbonates, bioapatite, waters, gases and organics; proficient in ISODAT programming, 2004-2008.

Desert Laboratory & Environmental Isotope Laboratory, University of Arizona: on- and off-line extractions and stable isotopic measurements of carbonates and bioapatites, 2000-2003.

Paleomagnetics Laboratory, University of Arizona: sample thermal demagnetization and magnetometer operation, 2003.


TEACHING AND OUTREACH
Instructor, Stable Isotope Ecology Short Course, University of Utah, 2006 and 2008.

Graduate Fellow, WEST NSF GK12 Program, University of Utah and Beacon Heights Elementary School, Salt Lake City, UT, 2005-2006.

Teaching Assistant, Olorgesailie Microstratigraphy and Taphonomy Field Course, Olorgesailie, Kenya, 2004.

Substitute Teacher, Junior High and High School Science, Monterey, Carmel and Pacific Grove School Districts, CA, 2002.

Graduate Fellow, CATTS NSF GK12 Program, University of Arizona and Desert View High School, Tucson, AZ, 2001-2002.

Teaching Assistant, Geologic Perspectives, University of Arizona, 2000-2001.

Instructor, Outdoor Education Program, Stanford University, 1999-2000.

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology, Stanford University, 1999.


GRANTS AND AWARDS
Outstanding Ph.D. Student, Dept. Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah, 2008

Geological Society of America Student Grant, 2006
“An isotopic study of East African Paleoaridity in the Plio-Pleistocene”

Sigma Xi Student Grant, 2006
“An isotopic study of East African Paleoaridity in the Plio-Pleistocene”

Associated Students of the University of Utah Travel Grant, 2005

International Association of Sedimentologists Student Grant, 2002
“Landscape paleoecology and stable isotope geochemistry in the Turkana Basin, Kenya”

Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement, Stanford University, 2000

Undergraduate Research Grant, Stanford University, 1999
“Geoarchaeology Korinth, Greece”

Undergraduate Research Grant, Stanford University, 1998
“Archaeoastronomy, Chavín de Huántar, Peru”


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
IUCN-SSC Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group
Reviewer for Applied Geochemistry, Basin Research, Chemical Geology, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, Functional Ecology, Geology, Journal of Human Evolution, Palaeo3, Quaternary Research, and Sedimentology.

PUBLICATIONS