Frank Corsetti
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740
USA

Frank Corsetti received his B.S. in geology from UC Davis and Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. Frank’s interests revolve around the co-evolution of the Earth and its biosphere using integrative paleontological, sedimentological, and geochemical tools. Recent topical projects include the impact of Snowball Earth on the course of evolution, geochemical and substrate changes across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, and the end Permian extinctions and the Early Triassic recovery period. Other interests include microbe-sediment interaction, stromatolites, coated grains, dolomitization, and biosignatures for exobiological studies.