About Me
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Nathan Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he built and directs a luminescence dating laboratory. He received his MS in 2011 from the University of Illinois in Chicago, dating North American loess deposits with thermally-transferred OSL (TT-OSL) techniques, under the supervision of Steven Forman. In 2017, he received his PhD from UCLA under the supervision of Ed Rhodes and Mark Harrison, where he developed K-feldspar thermoluminescence (TL) signals for low-temperature thermochronology applications. He was then a postdoc at UCLA with Seulgi Moon and an NSF Fellow at UC Berkeley with David Shuster prior to joining UTA in 2020. His research interests include numerical modelling, luminescence sediment dating, rock surface exposure dating, and thermochronology, especially in challenging geologic contexts. Some current field sites are the southern San Andreas fault system, beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, hydrothermal explosion deposits in Yellowstone National Park, and ventifact sites across the Mojave Desert.
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Argueta, M. O. ,
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Scharer, K. M. , Morgan, Z., & Leidelmeijer, J. (2022, 10). Constraining the long-term sedimentation history using boreholes at ancient Lake Cahuilla, Coachella, CA. Poster Presentation at 14th New World Luminescence Dating Workshop.
SCEC Contribution 13400
Argueta, M. O. ,
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Scharer, K. M. , Morgan, Z., & Leidelmeijer, J. (2022, 10). Constraining the long-term sedimentation history using boreholes at ancient Lake Cahuilla, Coachella, CA. Poster Presentation at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 13399
Brown, N. D. ,
Argueta, M. O. ,
Moon, S. ,
Rhodes, E. J. ,
Oskin, M. E. , &
Morelan, A. E. (2022, 09). Luminescence thermochronology reveals Late Pleistocene exhumation history near the Mill Creek strand of the San Andreas fault. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 12401
Argueta, M. O. ,
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Scharer, K. M. , Morgan, Z., & Leidelmeijer, J. (2022, 09). Constraining the long-term sedimentation history at ancient Lake Cahuilla, Coachella, CA from Holocene sediment cores. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 12041
Castillo, B. A. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Scharer, K. M. ,
Yule, D. ,
McPhillips, D. ,
McNeil, J. ,
Saha, S. ,
Brown, N. D. , &
Moon, S. (2022, 09). Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California . Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 11990
Argueta, M. O. ,
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Scharer, K. M. , Leidelmeijer, J., & Morgan, Z. (2021). Constraining Long-Term Sediment Depositional History at Ancient Lake Cahuilla, Coachella, California. Poster Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 13403
Argueta, M. O. ,
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Scharer, K. M. , Morgan, Z., & Leidelmeijer, J. (2021, 08). Constraining long-term sediment depositional history at ancient Lake Cahuilla, Coachella, California. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 11350
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rhodes, E. J. , &
McGill, S. F. (2021, 08). Potentials and challenges with single-grain luminescence dating—re-evaluating our assumptions. Oral Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 11123
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Scharer, K. M. , &
Brown, N. D. (2020, 08). Reconstructing long-term subsidence and paleoseismic history of the ancient Lake Cahuilla along the southern San Andreas fault in Coachella, California. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 10290
Peña, K. A. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Rhodes, E. J. ,
Dolan, J. F. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Castillo, B. A. ,
Hatem, A. E. ,
Saha, S. , &
Zinke, R. (2019, 08). Paleoseismic Results from the Christmas Canyon West Site, Central Garlock Fault, Searles Valley, California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 9831
Burns, J. E. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Rhodes, E. J. ,
Dolan, J. F. , &
Brown, N. D. (2019, 08). Dating of Offset Geomorphic Features Along the Garlock Fault, Mojave Desert, California: Testing a Proposed Earthquake Supercycle Model. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 9772
Saha, S. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rhodes, E. J. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Castillo, B. A. ,
Scharer, K. M. ,
McPhillips, D. , &
Yule, D. (2019, 08). Influence of sediment dynamics and alluvial fan formation on paleoseismic studies in southern California, North America. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 9535
Castillo, B. A. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Scharer, K. M. ,
Yule, D. ,
McPhillips, D. ,
McNeil, J. C. ,
Saha, S. ,
Brown, N. D. , &
Moon, S. (2019, 08). Ages of Prehistoric Earthquakes on the Banning Strand of the San Andreas Fault, Near North Palm Springs, California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 9361
Burns, J. E. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Rhodes, E. J. ,
Dolan, J. F. , &
Brown, N. D. (2018, 08). Dating of Offset Geomorphic Features Along the Garlock Fault, Mojave Desert, California: Testing a Proposed Earthquake Supercycle Model. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 8724
Peña, K. ,
McGill, S. F. ,
Rhodes, E. J. ,
Dolan, J. F. ,
Zinke, R. ,
Hatem, A. E. , &
Brown, N. D. (2018, 08). Paleoseismology of the central Garlock Fault in Searles Valley, California.. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 8432
Salisbury, J. B. ,
Arrowsmith, R. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Grant Ludwig, L. , &
Akciz, S. O. (2018). The age and origin of small offsets at Van Matre Ranch along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, California.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , 108(2), 639–653.
SCEC Contribution 7152
Emmons, B. ,
Moon, S. ,
Brown, N. D. ,
Blisniuk, K. D. , &
Rhodes, E. J. (2016, 08). Applying newly developed luminescence dating to alluvial fans in the Anza Borrego Desert, southern California. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 6949
Salisbury, J. B. ,
Arrowsmith, R. ,
Rockwell, T. K. ,
Akciz, S. O. ,
Brown, N. D. , &
Grant Ludwig, L. (2016, 08). Investigating the age and origin of small offsets at Van Matre Ranch along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, California. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting.
SCEC Contribution 6931
Last updated Sep 18, 2025.
