Juan Carlos Laya  

About me 

I am an Associate professor in carbonate sedimentology. My research interests are broadly in the field of carbonate sedimentology with a strong focus on the evolution of carbonate platforms. Carbonate diagenesis and dolomitization are also key focuses of my research; using a broad array of methods including field studies and laboratory experiments. I have worked on carbonate facies analysis and paleogeographic reconstructions of Permian carbonates, especially in South America and the Permian Basin. Recently, I am looking into fundamental problems in carbonate sedimentation and diagenesis using multi-scale approaches in the Middle East, Caribbean, and West Texas. I am also interested in Miocene carbonate platform evolution using ocean drilling material (IODP cores data). 

New articles:

An object‐based approach to differentiate pores and microfractures in petrographic analysis using explainable, supervised machine learning

ISAJ Jayachandran, HC Gibbs, JC Laya, Y Qaiser, T Khan, MIMS Ansari, .Earth and Space Science 11 (2), e2023EA003291

Dolomite occurrence within drift deposits, Maldives archipelago. K Prince, JC Laya, D Budd, CJ Manche, C Jacquemyn Sedimentary Geology 470, 106711

EGU GD blog post, highlighting Black voices in geoscience including our own Kieron Prince >> https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2020/06/10/black-in-geosciences/