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Dr. Matthew J. Kohn earned his Ph.D. in Geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991. After a Post-Doctoral Fellowship studying stable isotope geochemistry at UW-Madison, and teaching positions at Northern Illinois University, University of South Carolina, and Washington State University, he joined the faculty at Boise State University in 2007. Dr. Kohn's research interests include the development and use of geochemical techniques to investigate orogenesis (including major element, trace element, stable isotope, and radiogenic isotope geochemistry); chemical and isotopic analysis of metamorphic minerals, climatic and physiological analysis of organic phosphates; stable isotope, electron microprobe, ion microprobe and ICP-MS analysis; geochronology; thermodynamics, kinetics and phase equilibria. Dr. Kohn is a prolific author and reviewer for many geology journals. His field work has taken him to many locations around the globe from New England to California, and from India and Argentina to the Swiss and Italian Alps. In 2014, he was elected Councilor for the Mineralogical Society of America for a term from 2015-2017.
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Uptake mechanisms of REE in sedimentary phosphorite mineral Sponsor: Department of Energy
Kohn, M. (PI)
1/09/23 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
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Collaborative Research: How do ultrahigh pressure metamorphic sheets form and exhume? A case study from the Tso Morari complex, India
Kohn, M. (CoPI) & McNamara, J. (CoPI)
1/06/22 → 31/05/26
Project: Research
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MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer and UV Excimer Laser Platform for Trace Element Analysis and U-Th-Pb Petrochronology
Wanless, D. (PI), Kohn, M. (CoPI), Schmitz, M. (CoPI) & Crowley, J. L. (CoPI)
1/09/19 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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PIRE: ExTerra Field Institute and Research Endeavo
Kohn, M. (CoPI), McNamara, J. (CoPI), Feineman, M. M. (CoPI) & Penniston-dorland, S. S. (CoPI)
1/06/16 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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A simple method to create mineral mounts in thin section for teaching optical mineralogy
Kohn, M. J., 1 Feb 2025, In: American Mineralogist. 110, 2, p. 328-335 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Himalayan “S-type” granite generated from I-type sources
Ding, H., Zhang, Z. & Kohn, M. J., 3 Jun 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122, 22, e2500480122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access7 Scopus citations -
Late Triassic continental eclogite in the central Tibetan Plateau reveals 2500-km-long Paleo-Tethys continental subduction
Xu, W., Liu, L., Kohn, M. J., Liu, P. & Cai, J., 2025, In: Geology. 53, 1, p. 23-28 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Massive carbon storage in the upper mantle via diapirism of subducted continental sediments
Li, J., Ji, W. Q., Liu, X. C., Liu, J., Kohn, M. J. & Wu, F. Y., Dec 2025, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 271, 105291.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions in dentine collagen correlate strongly with oxygen isotope compositions of enamel carbonate
Reynard, L. M. & Kohn, M. J., 1 Jul 2025, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 400, p. 204-213 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations
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Tiny Crystals Capture Millions of Years of Mountain Range History: A Geologist Excavates the Himalayas with a Microscope
10/10/00
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement
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Dataset for Sex, Body Size, and Winter Weather Explain Migration Strategies in a Partial Migrant Population of American Kestrels (Falco sparverius)
Ranck, S. C. (Data Collector), Garsvo, C. M. (Data Collector), Schwartz, D. M. (Data Collector), Reynard, L. M. (Data Collector), Kohn, M. J. (Data Collector) & Heath, J. A. (Data Collector), 13 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.18122/bio_data.10.boisestate, https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/bio_data/10
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Dataset for Sex, Body Size, and Winter Weather Explain Migration Strategies in a Partial Migrant Population of American Kestrels (Falco sparverius)
Ranck, S. C. (Data Collector), Garsvo, C. M. (Data Collector), Schwartz, D. M. (Data Collector), Reynard, L. M. (Data Collector), Kohn, M. J. (Data Collector) & Heath, J. A. (Data Collector), 13 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.18122/bio_data.10.boisestate, https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/bio_data/10
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