Frank Corsetti

  • Associate professor of Earth Sciences
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-6123

Expertise Summary

Expert in geobiology, early life on Earth and mass extinctions

Expertise

  • stromatolites, biomarkers
  • microbes, bacteria in fossil record
  • biofilms
  • the Snowball Earth theory
  • mass extinctions
  • biogeochemical cycles through time
  • the co-evolution of Earth and life
  • geobiology, astrobiology and paleobiology
  • conditions for life

Additional Information

  • Associate editor, Geobiology
  • Associate editor, Palaios