About Me

Carl Swindle

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Caltech and a Visitor 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) development of models to for critical mineral prospectively and wildfire risk assessment,  2) interpretation and preservation of geochemical signatures in natural samples focusing on critical resources and paleoenvironmental conditions in Earth and planetary settings, and 3) integration of diverse datasets to interrogate and generalize regional spatiotemporal trends and test hypotheses.  
 
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.