Research
I am a geological generalist, with active interests in geochronology, geochemistry, sedimentology, chronostratigraphy, and geomorphology from the Proterozoic to the Holocene. Common threads of my research include non-vegetated fluvial architecture (pre-Silurian), Cambrian Laurentia, detrital zircon provenance, and braid deltas.
As part of PCIGR, my work involves tandem U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, pairing the rapid acquisition of LA-ICP-MS with the high precision of CA-TIMS to identify chronostratigraphically useful maximum depositional ages and, when paired with trace- and rare-earth-element concentrations, address sedimentary provenance and regional magmatic histories. Though my studies have primarily focused on the southwest United States, I will be developing new projects with collaborators in British Columbia.
Biography
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2026–present), Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research, University of British Columbia Vancouver
Post Doctoral Research Fellow (2023–2025), Isotope Geology Lab, Boise State University
Visiting Assistant Professor (2022–2023), Boise State University
Geology Lab Coordinator (2021–2022), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Ph.D. (2021), University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Architectural-element analysis and depositional models for pre-vegetation braidplain and braid-delta environments, with modern analogues
M.S. (2015), University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Testing for the effects of sediment sorting on detrital-zircon age spectra by sampling multiple bedforms in single fluvial channels: Case studies from the Wood Canyon Formation (Terreneuvian) and Stirling Quartzite (Ediacaran), southeastern CA.
B.S. (2013), Bucknell University: Catastrophic flooding in north-central Pennsylvania: Geomorphic findings from the September 2011 event and their significance to sedimentology.