Research has taken me as far north as northern Quebec to study the Sokomon Iron Formation as part of my Master's thesis work.
1.9 billion-year-old stromatolites preserved in iron formation, Labrador, Canada
This is the ONLY way to travel in the Great White North
Truly at peace when the sun is out and the wind is blowing strong enough to keep the bugs away!
My Ph.D. work was conducted in the Great Basin region of the western USA...
Exposure of the Ordovician Eureka Quartzite overlain by the Silurian Ely Springs Dolomite, Ibex Hills, Utah
An Ordovician mud mound at Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada
Taking in the 8000' elevation of the Roberts Mountains, central Nevada
........ as well as in the east in the Appalachians.
An international team of geologists looking for the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, West Virginia
Looking over a breached anticline, exposing Ordovician limestone in the Germany Valley, West Virginia
A snail mold preserved in fenestral tidal flat facies of the Middle Ordovician St. Paul Group, Clear Spring, Maryland
New research directions are taking me to places like...
The Umbria-Marche region, Italy to study Mesozoic carbonates with Hannah Riegel (AppState Geology grad, 2013)
Back to the Great Basin region, looking at evidence for causes of the Late Devonian mass extinction. Dan Govert and Will Lamb (AppState Geology) measuring section with a Jacob's staff
Bermuda, where Dr. Peir Pufahl is discussing the effects of diagenesis on wind-blown carbonate sediment