10 BOONE PICKENS SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY New Faculty and Staff Jennifer Koch Administrative Support Assistant I Hello, my name is Jennifer Koch, I am new to OSU. I am an Administrative Support Assistant I for the BPSoG. My job here is to work on the Social Media aspect of Geology. We currently are in the works of setting up a new web page. I also handle posting social media on the Geology’s Facebook, LinkedIn, and older web page. I handle making brochures and pamphlets or any other material to get the information about Geology and what we have to offer out to those who have an interest in Geoscience. I also handle the daily clerical duties of the main Geology office along with assisting setting up events we host here at BPSoG. On a more personal level, I have three teenage sons, Landon, Matthew, and Nicholas. They are my world and I enjoy spending my free time with them. I like to read when I have any spare moment. We love to get out and enjoy nature, fishing, swimming, and camping. It all is fun to me when I am with them. My favorite time is family night where we play games and hang out with them and their friends. I look forward to getting to know you all and appreciate the opportunity I have been given to be apart of the Geology Department. Dr. Tingying Xu Assistant Professor Environmental Geochemistry – Metal (Bio)Geochemistry Greetings everyone! Here is brief summary of my work and life for the 2nd year in OSU. My research interests are still in mineral-water-microbe-metal interactions with an add-on interest on soil fungi. Last year, I have started some collaborative work with scientists in Horticulture department to explore how mycorrhizal fungi can improve nitrogen and other nutrient uptake efficiency of Pecans in Oklahoma. This work has been funded by ODAFF Special Crop program. Hope my journey on soil fungi-plant interaction can go further. Beyond the proposed research, I got the chance to eat/share Oklahoma pecans in Fall with my family, students, and colleagues! I have been working on bioremediation of multiple metals using native Oklahoma fungi since I arrived here. I conducted several field experiments at the “dirty” Tar Creek area and actually found some noval fungi with the ability to remove manganese and other metal contaminants. Ongoing work is to dig into the machenisms on the biomineralization and bioremediation processes. Besides these, I have multiple other projects exploring hydrocarbon degradation by noval Oklahoma microbes, iron oxide morphogical controls on wettability, REE isotopic fractionation during abiotic
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