Projects

This project looks to understand how and why the North American Cordillera has been in a state of extension throughout the late Cenozoic. Low-temperature thermochronology from the area is being used to accurately resolve the timing and rate of extension from Canada to Nevada.

This project looks to accurately track sediment provenance during glacial retreat to better understand how erosion and sediment transport adapt. Ongoing work focuses on the sediment outputs of the Bugaboo Glacier in BC, Canada (pictured below).

This work looked at how the elevated coastal topography of West Greenland and Baffin Island evolved over the last 400 million years. Low-temperature thermochronology and landscape evolution modeling were used to show how this landscape is the remnant of much older topography remaining elevated through glacial erosion and crustal buoyancy.

This work aims to improve the analytical and modelling approaches for heavy mineral analysis. The project includes geochemical analysis of multiple heavy mineral grains and utilizing machine learning algorithms to improve our ability to define the number of sediment sources and their relative contributions.   

This project aims to resolve the timing and rate of uplift across the Patagonian Atlantic coastline. Cosmogenic nuclide dating of abandoned river terraces looks to date when they were deposited and estimate the amount of uplift since. 

This project aims to improve how we collect and model detrital low-temperature thermochronology to improve how we study region exhumation histories.