Curriculum Vitae – Karin Lydia Louzada [PDF]

Contact Information Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

20 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

tel: 617-496-0257, fax: 617-384-8249,

E-mail: louzada AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu

Education

2003 – exp Fall ‘08	Harvard Univ.	PhD student. Project title: The effects of shock on magnetic properties of crustal materials. (MSc, March 6, 2007)
1998-2003	Utrecht Univ. (NL)	"Doctoraal" (MSc-equivalent, Jan 27, 2003, ‘With Distinction’). Project title: The magmatic evolution of the upper ~3450 Ma Hooggenoeg Formation, Barberton greenstone belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa.
1997-1998	Utrecht Univ.	"Propedeuse" (BSc-equivalent, Aug 1998, ‘Cum Laude’).
1991-1997	Secondary	Het Rijnlands Lyceum, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
1985-1991	Primary	Potomac, MD, USA ( ‘85-‘90) and Leiden, Netherlands (‘90-‘91)

Awards and Fellowships

2008 Jan. 2008 2006/2007 & ‘07/’08	Mary Taussig-Henderson (Crystallography) Prize – Harvard University IRM visiting Fellowship - Univ. of Minnesota Amelia Earhart Fellowship - Zonta International
2007	Travel grant - IUGG, Perugia, Italy
2005	Travel grant - Shock Compression of Condensed Matter (APS), Baltimore, MD
2004/2005	Stickney Fellowship, Harvard University
2000/2001	Travel grant - ‘t Molengraaff Fonds, Delft Univ., the Netherlands
2000/2001	Travel grant - Trajectum Fonds, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Fieldwork

2005 and 2006	Paleomagnetic sampling at Lonar Crater, India
2000 and 2002	Coppin's Gap Greenstone Belt, Western Australia
2001	Geochemical Sampling: Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa (Univ. of Cape Town)
1999	Mapping: Pyrenees, Spain and Southern France
1998	Mapping: Aliaga, Spain

First Author Publications

• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Soule, S.A. (submitted to EPSL) “Paleomagnetism of Lonar Impact Crater, India”.
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (2007) “Effect of shock on the magnetic properties of pyrrhotite, the Martian crust, and meteorites”, GRL, 34, L05204, doi:10.1029/2006GL027685.
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (2006) “Shock Demagnetization of Pyrrhotite (Fe_1-xS, x≤0.13) and Implications for the Martian Crust and Meteorites” – AIP Conf. Proc. 845, 1476.

First Author Oral and Poster Presentations

• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (July 2007) “The effects of shock on low-coercivity magnetization in pyrrhotite in the Martian crust and meteorites” [ASI008-7] - Oral at IUGG, Perugia

• Louzada, K.L., Weiss, B.P., Maloof A.C., Stewart, S.T., and Swanson-Hysell, N. (March 2007) “A Paleomagnetic Study of Lonar Impact Crater, India” [#2344] - Poster at LPSC, Houston
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (Dec 2006) – “New results from shock experiments on pyrrhotite and implications for the magnetization of the Martian crust and meteorites” [MR51B-0968] Poster at AGU, San Francisco
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (Oct 2005) “Shock Demagnetization of the Martian Crust” - Oral at ^8th Mars Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (Aug 2005) “Shock Demagnetization of Pyrrhotite (Fe_1-xS, x≤0.13) and Implications for the Martian Crust and Meteorites” - Oral at Shock Compression of Condensed Matter APS, Baltimore
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (March 2005) “Shock Demagnetization of Pyrrhotite” [#1134] - Poster at LPSC, Houston
• Louzada, K.L., Stewart, S.T. and Weiss, B.P. (Dec 2004) “Shock-Induced demagnetization of pyrrhotite and Implications for the Martian Crust” [GP21C-03] - Oral at AGU, San Francisco

Teaching

Fall 2005 and 2007	Teaching fellow “Environmental Hazards and Disasters” undergraduate level core course, Harvard University
1999 – 2003	Student teaching assistantships for mathematics, sedimentary geology, mineralogy and petrology, Ardennes excursion, Utrecht University