My Ph.D. dissertation is focused on understanding the incision, fluvial, and geomorphological history of the Kali Gandaki fluvial system of Central Nepal, the deepest valley in the world, and how it links with tectonics, climate, and erosion of the Himalayan Orogenic Thrust Belt.

My M.Sc. thesis was focused on quantifying Quaternary slip rates of the Tumalo Fault within the Sisters Fault Zone near Bend, OR, USA.

During my M.Sc. at KU, I was involved in the international multidisciplinary NSF-funding project, DRIAR (Dry Rifting in the Albertine-Rhino Graben). Our KU tectonics team was focused on understanding the neotectonics, slip history, geometry, and kinematics of major rift-bounding normal faults associated with continental rifting of the Albertine-Rhino Grabens, Uganda, Africa in the magma-poor western branch of the East African Rift System (EARS).

After my undergrad, I spent a year at the USGS Earthquake Science Center, now based in Moffett Field, CA, studying the neotectonics and earthquake hazards of many of the highly active faults throughout California. 

As a result of my time and research at the USGS, we published a paper focused on quantifying aseismic creep on the Sargent Fault near Gilroy, California. The 55‐km‐long Sargent fault connects the creeping Calaveras fault with the locked San Andreas fault through the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Gilroy, California. The position of the Sargent fault between these two faults may have implications for slip transfer and strain accumulation between a creeping and locked fault. 

During my undergraduate education at Central Washington Unviersity (CWU), I worked with Dr. Jeff Lee on utilizing high-resolution LiDAR datasets to quantify vertical separation and offset along the 1983 rupture of the Borah Peak Fault Scarp, Central Idaho, USA.