earth science

Glen Snyder

Research Scientist



Ph.D (2001) University of Rochester

Publication list (pdf).

Curriculum vitae (pdf)

Email: gsnyder@rice.edu

Phone: (713)348-4054

Office: Keith Weiss Earth Science 330B



Sampling water from an artesian system in salt flats of the Chilean Altiplano


Sampling nitrate deposits, Atacama Desert, Chile


Gas hydrate, Umitaka Spur, Sea of Japan


Piston coring apparatus onboard the JAMSTEC research vessel Kaiyo


Lake Joyce and Taylor Glacier, Antarctica


Methane seeps on New Zealand's North Island


Sampling gas on the flanks of Momotombo volcano, Nicaragua


Miravelles geothermal, Costa Rica


Rice Earth Science
Research Overview:

Aqueous fluids provide us with a geochemical window to observe the fundamental mechanisms that have driven dynamic processes in crustal, surficial, and atmospheric reservoirs both in the present and in the distant past. My research has focused on determining the elemental and isotopic composition of fluids and looking at how they are coupled with global processes such as climate change, weathering, tectonics, and marine carbon cycling. Specific areas of research interest are as follows:

Cycling of carbon and other elements in marine continental margins:
Halogens in polar regions:
Coalbed Methane Systems:
Geothermal and volcanic studies:
Dispersal of Anthropogenic Isotopes: