Carol Dehler 

College of Science

Geosciences

Carol Dehler is a ‘deep time’ geologist and an associate professor in the Geology Department at Utah State University. She received her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and an M.S. in Geology from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. Her research interests include questions about pre-metazoan biotic evolution, the composition of Earth’s early atmosphere and oceans, associated climate change, the nature of ancient landscapes, and the geologic timescale. All of her projects are field-based and may be combined with lab techniques including stable-isotope and elemental geochemistry, petrography, scanning electron microscopy, and geochronology. Carol’s research group includes graduate and undergraduate students and numerous collaborators from universities worldwide. Research has taken Carol and students to places including Grand Canyon, Death Valley, the Uinta Mountains, Namibia, and Sweden. Her group has published in journals such as Science, Nature Geoscience, Precambrian Research, and the Geological Society of America, and has generated geologic maps for state geological surveys in the west. Carol is also a voting member of the Cryogenian sub-commission, which is working on the latest GSSP (a rock-based Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the International Geologic Time Scale.