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You have made your way to the web page of 亨利Fricke, "the geochemist" in the geology department at the 科罗拉多大学. Before arriving at CC I was a postdoctoral re搜索 scientist in Washington DC, both at the Smithsonian Institution and at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. I did my graduate work in stable isotope geochemistry as a student of Jim O'Neil's at the University of Michigan, and I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.
I became interested in geology because I wanted to understand the history of the landscape around me (the great state of Pennsylvania), and over the years this interest in earth history has translated into the study of subjects ranging from cosmochemistry, metamorphic petrology and 构造地质学 to 地貌学 and geoarchaeology. Fortunately in stable isotope geochemistry I have found a set of analytical techniques that allow me to maintain theses interests as well as to expand my learning and re搜索 into new fields such as terrestrial paleoecology and 古气候学.

My goal here at 科罗拉多大学 is to get students as excited as I am about geology, and to give them a chance to become actively involved in using stable isotope and other geochemical methods as a way of learning more about the world that surrounds them and about its history.

It has become axiomatic that doing science is one of the best ways for students to learn science. Doing science also provides an excellent introduction to quantitative reasoning, and it provides a showcase for students to display their self-motivation and communication skills to graduate schools, 专业的学校, 和/或未来的雇主. 出于这些原因, I involve students in all aspects on my re搜索, including collaborative efforts with other faculty and with other students, and I strongly encourage them to present their results at national scientific meetings (see 出版物). I also advise students who take part in re搜索 as part of the 凯克财团.

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Here at CC I teach a wide variety of classes, many of which seem on tangentially related to geochemistry. 然而, the act of preparing for class and talking with students in class often offers me a chance to revisit topics I might not have thought about since I was an undergraduate, and I often find that this leads to new geochemical insight on my part. 更多的个人, I find teaching to be very satisfying, and I enjoy working with students, helping them learn new concepts, and seeing them grow as people and as geologists.

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I also teach a variety of upper level courses on topics like Isotope Geochemistry, Geologic Records of Past Environments, and Regional Studies (field-based) on a less frequent basis.