Kevin Konrad - Curriculum Vitae (Last Updated March 2022) University of Nevada, Las Vegas M/S SEB 4022, 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4022 Kevin.Konrad [at] unlv.edu Office: (702) 895-3696 Lab: (702) 895-2353
Education
Ph.D., Geology, Oregon State University. Advisors: Drs. David Graham, Anthony Koppers 2017
Assistant Professor, Geochronologist & Director of the Nevada Isotope Geochronology Laboratory, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 2020 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Oregon State University, July 2019 - Sep 2020
Faculty Research Assistant (Curator): OSU’s Marine and Geology Repository, Oct 2017 – Present
Lab Technician 2 (Assistant Curator): OSU’s Marine and Geology Repository, Jan 2016 – Sep 2017
Graduate Research Assistant: Oregon State University, Sep 2010 – March 2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Oregon State University, Jan 2012 – Dec 2016
Laboratory Assistant: Oregon State University’s Geochronology Laboratory, Feb 2013 – Dec 2016
Inorganic Geochemist: International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), Mar – Jun 2014
Laboratory Assistant: Oregon State University’s Keck Laboratory (LA-ICPMS), Sep – Dec 2012
Undergraduate Researcher: American Museum of Natural History, Jun – Sept 2008; 2009
Undergraduate Research Assistant: Queen’s College, CUNY, Nov 2009 – Jun 2010
Awards/Grants (Since 2020)
NSF Grant (lead with Andrea Balbas; Val Finlayson; Jasper Konter) Collaborative Research: Investigating Mantle Source Reservoirs and Cretaceous Plate Motions Recorded by Ancient Mid-Pacific Oceanic Rises and Seamount Tracks (2021; NSF-OCE; $388,249)
Courses Taught at UNLV GEOL749 - Advanced Geochronology and Thermochronology GEOL102 - Historical Geology GEOL438/638 - Marine Geology
Publications
Price, A., Jackson M.G., Blichert-Toft, J., Konrad, K., Bizimiz, M., Koppers, A.P., Konter, J., Finlayson, V., Sinton, J. (2022-In Press). Samoan-like EM1 rejuvenated volcanism on a HIMU Cook-Austral volcano: contrasting volcanism on a single “hotspot highway” volcano at Papatua Seamount, American Samoa. Journal of Petrology.
Koppers, A.A., Becker, T.W., Jackson, M.G., Konrad, K., Müller, R.D., Romanowicz, B., Steinberger, B. and Whittaker, J.M., 2021. Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(6), pp.382-401.
Auscavitch, S., Pockalny, R., Konrad, K., Humphreys, J., Clark, T. B., Heffron, E., & Fundis, A. (2020). Deepwater Exploration of Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Jarvis Island GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES FROM THE US LINE ISLANDS. Oceanography, 33(1), 38-39.