Undergraduates 

I am always looking for passionate students to conduct petrological/geological research, using instruments available at Fredonia and/or collaborating institutions. Interested students are encouraged to email me or stop by my office (122 Houghton Hall) to discuss potential projects.

Current opportunities: 

• • Pressure-Temperature-time history of high-grade metamorphic rocks

  • Kimberlite petrogenesis

  • Calcsilicate metasomatism in the eastern Jinsha Suture, Tibetan Plateau

  • Origin and characteristics of serpentinites in the Jinsha Suture, Tibetan Plateau

If you have any research ideas, feel free to chat with me. I will try to help further develop it and help seek research funding to support it.

We have opportunities to use a suite of analytical instruments at Fredonia and at collaborating institutions. 

• Fredonia: Scanning electron microscope-Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (SEM-EDS) system with CL capabilities, X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), X-ray Diffractometer (XRD) etc. 

• Collaborating institutions: Electron microprobe (EMP), Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS).