I'm interested in using a variety of tools (geochemistry, field mapping, and numerical models) to understand how fluids interact with rocks and melts/mushes. My graduate research is focused on understanding how veins form at the magmatic-hydrothermal transition and how that affects porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization. I also really enjoy experimental petrology and study trace element incorporation into quartz as a function of growth rate, pressure, and temperature.
ABOUT ME
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hydrothermal Alteration
How fluids modify the composition of minerals in the mid-/upper- crust
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
How magmatic and metamorphic processes connect together to control spatio-temporal processes and deposit type distributions
Nanoparticle Thermodynamics
Examining the idea that "kinetic effects" are the signature of the thermodynamics of nanoparticles in natural systems
2011 - 2014
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA B.Sci., Thesis Option
2009 - 2011
Clark Community College, Vancouver, WA
A. A. to Transfer
2014 - Present (Expected Graduation SPRING 2020)
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Ph.D. Earth Sciences
Advised by Dr. Mark H. Reed and Dr. James Watkins