education:
A.B. Geology, 1981; Occidental College; Los Angeles, California
M.S. Geology, 1988; University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California
Ph.D. candidate Geology; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego; La Jolla, California
research interests:
"My field of study is paleoceanography - the science of figuring out the nature of past oceans. Mainly, I am trying to figure out how the corrosivity of deep ocean waters to carbonate sediments has varied over the last million years in the western equatorial Pacific."
email:   myasuda@ucsd.edu

hometown:  Los Angeles, CA
homepage:  http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/team/yasuda