Val Aguilar

Val received her BS in Earth Sciences (paleobiology & geology) from UC Santa Barbara in 2021. As an RA at Johns Hopkins University, she became interested in using lab and field techniques to answer questions related to perturbations in Precambrian biogeochemical cycles. At Harvard, Val works in the Drabon & Johnston lab groups, where she hopes to use isotope geochemistry and sedimentology as tools to characterize disturbances on early Earth. Her research currently involves unravelling how the Archean biosphere and surface environment changed as a result of large extraterrestrial impacts.