Carina Kentish


Carina Kentish
  • PhD Aspirant

Contact Info


Education

B.S. in Geology, Brigham Young University, 2023
M.S. in Geology, Brigham Young University, 2025

Research

Research Interests:
• Stable Isotope Geochemistry
• Clumped Isotope Geochemistry
• Triple Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry
• Paleoclimatology and paleohydrology

Selected Publications

Posters and Presentations:
1. Kentish, C., Burgener, L., Suarez, M.B., Ludvigson, G., Gonzales, L., Schauer, A.J., Huntington, K.W., and Sharp, Z., 2025, A Cretaceous Enhanced Hydrologic Cycle? Characterizing paleohydrology from Mexico using a multiproxy approach with shallow marine carbonates. Goldschmidt 2025.
2. Kentish, C., Burgener, L., Suarez, M.B., Ludvigson, G., Schauer, A.J., Huntington, K.W., and Sharp, Z., 2025, Characterizing an “Enhanced Hydrologic Cycle” from Cretaceous Mexico using clumped and triple oxygen isotopes of marginal marine carbonates. Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section – 75th Annual Meeting.
3. Schmidt, C., Kentish, C., Gates, T.A., and Burgener, L., 2025, Greenhouse paleobiogeography in western North America: Constraining the influence of climate and geography on plant provinciality through time. G Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section – 75th Annual Meeting.
4. Kentish, C., Burgener, L., and Hyland, E., 2023, Deriving quantitative lower limits on paleo-precipitation based on the presence of coal and lignite: A multiproxy approach. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No.6, 2023. doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-395118