RESEARCH OVERVIEW

My research is multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and societally-relevant. I seek to understand connections between the deformation of the Earth and natural resources (e.g., precious metals, water, biodiversity, fossil fuels) and geologic hazards (earthquakes, landslides, floods).

My expertise is in structural geology and tectonics, and I collaborate with researchers across disciplines. I employ a variety of techniques including:

1. Compilation of geological, geophysical, and geochemical datasets into a 3D-structural framework

2. Palinspastic reconstructions at the regional to plate-scale

3. Kinematic and thermo-kinematic numerical modeling

4. Field- and microstructural studies of brittle-ductile fault rocks

5. Geo- and thermo-chronology

Observational & analytical methods:

• field studies (geological mapping; structural analysis; oriented sample collection)

• geochronology (detrital k-feldspar, dating lava flows)

• digital geologic mapping and database compilations (unit ages and thicknesses, gravity-based basin models, seismic reflection/refraction lines, EQ focal mech & hypocenter clustering; heat flow)

Modeling:

• GPLATES (plate reconstruction software)

• Move (2D & 3D structural, kinematic and dynamic modeling software)

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• FETKin & FETKinPrep (2D thermo-kinematic modeling code)

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Crustal-scale 3D structural modeling of fault systems using multidisciplinary datasets (e.g., surface mapping, seismic lines, earthquake hypocenters, focal mechanisms, gravity inversions)

Please contact me if you’re interested in a collaboration. You can e-mail me or use the form below