K Muehlenbachs

Email

kmuehlen@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 492-2827

Address

3-22A Earth Sciences Building

11223 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2E3

Research area

Stable isotope geochemistry, oceans, water rock interaction, paleoclimate

Research interest

Dr. Karlis Muehlenbachs specializes in using stable isotope variation in many aspects of geochemistry, e.g. history of seawater, isotopic paleoclimate proxies, oxygen diffusion in minerals, contamination of groundwater by natural gas, and in-situ steam-assisted heavy oil extraction

Research opportunity

• Muehlenbachs is seeking graduate students to participate in an ongoing,
• industry funded initiative to understand the origin of shallow natural gas
• in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.
• Muehlenbachs is seeking a graduate student to determine rates of oxygen
• diffusion in minerals and melts at high temperature and pressure
• Muehlenbachs is seeking a graduate student who would elucidate aspects of
• microbiological attack on volcanic glass