Noah Randolph-Flagg (方诺然)

Education    

2019                            Ph.D., Earth & Planetary Science, University of California at Berkeley;

advisor: Michael Manga

2011                             B.A., Geology, Carleton College, magna cum laude;

Certificate of Advanced Language Study in Chinese

2006                           Harvard Summer Session, Astrobiology and Political Philosophy

Work Experience

2025 - present Assistant Professor, Dept. Earth and Environmental Science, U. Kentucky, Lexington, KY

2023 - 2024 Lecturer, “Environmental Geology”, UC Berkeley, CA

2021- 2024 Scientist, Blue Marble Space at NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA

2019-2021                   NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA,                                                      

Exobiology, supervisor: Tori Hoehler

2018                            Instructor, Planet Earth, Summer Session, UC Berkeley, CA

2013-2016                   Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley
                                                 Planet Earth (2013)
                                                 Structural Geology (2015)
                                                 Stratigraphy and Earth History (2016)

2012-2018                    Pathways Intern, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park, CA

Volcano Hazards, advisor: Shaul Hurwitz, Steve Ingebritsen

2010-2011                    Teaching Assistant, Carleton College
                                                 Geomorphology (2010)

                                                 Environmental Geology (2011)

2009-2011                    Hydrologic Technician, Volcano Hazards, USGS, Menlo Park, CA

Awards and Grants

2026-2031 NASA ICAR, “Investigating Ocean Worlds”, Co-I

2025-2028 NASA PSD, “Effect of climate on habitability of Martian hot springs,” Co-I

2023 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2019-2021                    NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA Ames

2017                             Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

2015                             Outstanding Student Paper Award, talk, 2015 AGU Fall Meeting

2015                             NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Research Fellowship, Taiwan

2013-2016                    NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Hydrology

2011-2012                    Fulbright Student Research Fellowship, Hydrology, Xi’an, China

2008                              Kolenkow-Reitz Fellowship for Undergraduate Research, Carleton College

Publications

Service and Public Outreach

• Member of steering committee, Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW) -- NASA Astrobiology Research Coordination Network

• Reviewer NASA, NSF, Icarus, GSA Bulletin, Chemical Geology, PEPI, etc.

• Featured in PBS's Physics Girl YouTube video on Hawaiian Volcanism. ~7M views

• Bishop column research featured in ABC 10 Sacramento, LA Times, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Le Temps (French, Switzerland), Epoch Times (Chinese), Phys.org, The Sheet, Frankfurt General Newspaper (German), and West Hawaii Today.

• Graduate Student Representative (2014-2015) UC Berkeley, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science

• Graduate Student Mentor (2012-2015) UC Berkeley New Experiences for Research & Diversity in Science (NERDS)

• “NOVA: World’s Deadliest Volcanoes,” PBS NOVA, WGBH Boston, 04 January 2012.

Skills and Interests

• English (native), Chinese (conversational)

• Experience with Python, R, MATLAB, Julia, Obspy, MSNoise, QGIS, EQ3/6, HYDROTHERM, Ash3D, HYSPLIT

• Competitive runner & triathlete.

Recent and Upcoming Conference presentation schedule (*student presenter)
2025 AGU Fall Meeting (New Orleans)

• Gribbins*, Maynard, Thompson, Hung, Randolph-Flagg “Fracture-Mediated Water Level Changes at a Groundwater Well in Virginia (2008-2025)”

• Randolph-Flagg, Fisher, German, Hoehler “Systematic changes in energy and nutrient fluxes from seafloor hydrothermal discharge on Enceladus and Europa”