About

Hi there! My name is Austin Weber and I am a PhD Candidate in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University. I work with Professor Lonnie Thompson at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center studying paleoclimate records preserved in ice cores from Earth’s tropical regions.

My dissertation research is focused on analyzing the mineral dust contents of ice cores drilled in the Peruvian Andes. I am particularly interested in the use of electron microscopy to characterize individual particles for morphology and mineralogy, coupled with machine learning and other computational techniques for mineral identification. I am also passionate about building software tools to help researchers with data visualization and quantitative analysis, and I have a wide variety of open source projects available on GitHub and the MATLAB Central File Exchange.

I expect to complete my doctoral studies in May 2026, and I am currently looking for postdoctoral opportunities. Please feel free to reach out to me by email (✉️weber.1158@osu.edu) if you would like to discuss academics, opportunties, or research.

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