About Yadira Ibarra

Research:

My research interests broadly span the co-evolution of life and the earth surface environment on geologic and recent timescales. As a sedimentary geologist and geobiologist, I use field, petrographic, and geochemical approaches to understand different scales of environmental change as recorded in the sedimentary rock record. Most of my work has been on the biogeochemistry of fluvial and lacustrine carbonate microbialites. My research offers a range of opportunities for students to study sedimentary rocks from a paleoenvironmental perspective as well as with a geobiological/astrobiological framework.

Teaching:

Earth Systems Science (ERTH 500) 

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy (ERTH 515)

Our Dynamic Earth (ERTH 112)

In Spring 2025 I will be teaching Geology of National Parks (ERTH 325)

Education:

A.B. Geology-Biology, Brown University 

Ph.D. Geological Sciences, University of Southern California