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Education

M.S. in Geology 1998 (specialty: volcanism, geochemistry, structure-tectonics) Idaho State University.

 Ph.D. in Geology (2003) (specialty: structure-tectonics, petrochemistry) University of Southern California
 
 

Research Interests

Magmatic and Structural Evolution of the Snake River Plain, Idaho

Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Southern and Baja California

Quantitative Strain Analyses and Primary Fabric Corrections

Mass Transfer Processes active during Pluton Emplacement

Magmatic Distillation Processes to form Continental Crust

Related Publications

Collaborators

Helge Alsleben: University of Southern California

Scott R. Paterson: University of Southern California

Keegan L. Schmidt: Lewis and Clark College

Scott E. Johnson: University of Maine

Erwin Melis:  University of Maine

Kurtis Burmeister:  University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign

Mihai Ducea: University of Arizona

George Gehrels: University of Arizona

P. Johnathan Patchet: University of Arizona

Experience

Post Doctoral Research Assistant: U/Pb geochronology

Teaching Assistant: Physical Geography, Volcanology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology (Ig., Sed., and Meta.)

Research Assistant: Instramental Nuetron Activation Analysis Laboratory, Department of Geology, Idaho State University

Hydrologic Technician: United States Geological Survey, Idaho Falls, Idaho

Field Camp Manager:  Department of Geology, Idaho State University

Zamboni Driver and Ice Arena Supervisor: SUNY College @ Brockport
   

Awards

Dissertation Fellowship (USC): 2002-2003

Best Student Paper (VI Meeting Peninsular Geological Society (La Paz, Mexico): 2002

Sigma Gamma Epsilon Teaching Assistant of the Year (USC): 2000, 2001

Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence (USC): Fall, 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000

Supervised Undergraduate Senior Research Projects

Michelle Sutherland: The Early Cretaceous Santiago Peak arc: A continental margin arc built on the North America Triassic-Jurassic accretionary prism of southern and Baja California (2002)

Paul W. Schultz: Southern Branch of the Agua Blanca fault: An inherited Mesozoic Structure? (2000)

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