• 2024/10, Northern Oman
  Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic strata, snowball Earth, petroleum systems

• 2023/11, Eastern Brazil
  The Ediacaran Bambuí Group; Field conference organized by International Subcommissions on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy

• 2023/10, Green River, Utah
  Sequence stratigraphy; Field conference organized by SEPM - Society for Sedimentary Geology

• 2019/10, Guadalupe, Spain
  Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition; Field conference organized by the International Subcommissions on Ediacaran and Cambrian Stratigraphy

• 2019/06, Adelaide, Australia
  Sampling trip for chemostratigraphy, South Australia Drill Core Reference Library, Ediacaran drill cores

• 2019/04, Shaanxi Province, South China
  Sampling trip for chemostratigraphy, Ediacaran Denying Formation at the Lijiagou section

• 2018/07, Western Australia
  Astrobiology Grand Tour, field conference organized by the Australian Centre for Astrobiology

• 2015/12, Ontario, Canada
  Sampling trip for chemostratigraphy, Paleoproterozoic Huronian Supergroup, Ontario Geological Survey, the Great Oxidation Event

• 2014/07, Newfoundland, Canada
  Sampling trip for chemostratigraphy, Golden Spike / Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary

• 2014/06, Yangtze Gorges area, South China
  Sampling trip for chemostratigraphy, Ediacaran Doushantuo and Dengying formations + An additional field conference organized by the International Subcommission on Ediacaran Stratigraphy

• 2014/06, Shaanxi Province, China
  Sampling trip for chemostratigraphy, Ediacaran Dengying Formation at Gaojiashan at the Gaojiashan section

• 2012-2014, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania of the USA
  University of Maryland GEOL 342 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy course field excursions

• 2011/08, Siberia, Russia
  Neoproterozoic Oselok and Karagassy groups, Sayan Mountains; Field conference organized by the International Subcommission on Ediacaran Stratigraphy

• 2010/04, Qaidam Basin, NW China
  Facies analysis, stratigraphic description and correlation

• 2009/08, Tarim Basin, NW China
  Cambrian and Ordovician carbonate reservoirs, hydrothermal diagenesis

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We live and do research on land that was originally home to several indigenous nations, including the Kaw, Osage, and Pawnee. This land was stolen from them and we acknowledge this truth. For more details, please see the K-State Land Acknowledgement.