Aoraki / Mount Cook in the Southern Alps, South Island of New Zealand

CURRENT POSITION

Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Assistant Professor of Practice (2019-present), Research Scientist (2016-2019)

PAST EXPERIENCE

Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX

Exploration and New Ventures, Structural Geology Technical Services, and Interpretive Imaging Strategic Research Groups

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

PhD., May 2012, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Advisor:  John H. Shaw

Dissertation:  A Study of Contractional Fault-related Folding Kinematics and Mechanics and Comparison with Observations from Seismic Reflection Data

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

B.S. with Honors in Geology, June 2006, summa cum laude

Advisor:  Christopher D. Connors

Honors thesis:  Fold simplification and fault estimation for inverse modeling of fault-bend folding

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Association of Petroleum Geologists