Pronouns: she/her
Padilla Vriesman is pronounced “Puh-DEE-uh Vrees-min”
Email: vvriesma (at) oberlin (dot) edu
Welcome to the Quaternary Invertebrate Paleo Lab (QuIP Lab), led by Veronica Padilla Vriesman. Dr. Vriesman is a marine scientist with broad interests in climate change and biomineralization. She studies connections between marine shells and ocean changes through time. She is especially interested in environmental impacts on bivalve biomineralization, and how we can use shell archives to tell us about past environmental variability over seasonal to millennial scales.
Veronica earned her PhD in 2022 from the Ocean Climate Lab in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at UC Davis. She studied the shell of the culturally and ecologically significant California mussel to evaluate its utility as a paleoceanographic archive with the support of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. As a Latina scientist committed to anti-racism and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in STEM and academia, she is particularly passionate about teaching at the undergraduate level.
Dr. Vriesman is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Oberlin College. Students: interested in joining the QuIP Lab? Check out the Student Resources page!
