My research interests span several orders of magnitude from crustal-scale tectonic processes to micron-scale textural and petrologic problems. Much of my work focuses on understanding the relationships and feedbacks among deformation, metamorphic, and magmatic processes, and the consequent implications for crustal structure and tectonic evolution of continents. This involves the integration of tools from structural geology, petrology of all rock types but primarily metamorphic rocks and ductile tectonites, and geochronology. I collaborate with a variety of researchers including other structural geologists, petrologists, geophysicists, and geochronologists, from around the world.

	Deep crust - Canadian Shield		Monazite petrogenesis
	Crustal xenoliths - Wyoming, Montana		Tectonics of Rocky Mountain region (Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the southwestern U.S.)
	Deformation, metamorphism, and crustal seismic anisotropy		Eastern California Shear Zone and Sierra Nevada batholith

Current Research Grants (click title for more info)

Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe for Major and Trace Element Analysis (NSF-MRI), Through 2017.

Role of hot crust in mountain building: Testing the alpha-beta quartz transition as a crustal geothermometer (NSF-Geophysics), Through 2016.

CAREER: Evolutionary processes in crustal seismic anisotropy (NSF-Tectonics). Through 2018.

Crustal deformation across the U.S. from harmonic analysis of receiver functions (NSF EarthScope). Through 2015.

Lowrider: The Where, When, and How of Continental Crustal Underplating (NSF EarthScope), Through 2014.

Past Research Grants (click title for more info)

Collaborative Research: An exhumed field example of heterogeneous lower crustal flow, Athabasca Granulite Terrane, Canada (NSF Tectonics), Through 2014.

Hell Roaring creek shear zone, Gallatin Peak quadrangle, N. Madison Range, Montana (USGS EDMAP).

Collaborative Research: Thermal Evolution of North American Lower Crust: U-Pb Thermochronological Constraints on the Physical Properties of the Continental Lithosphere (NSF Earthscope)

SGER: Integrated petrophysical and seismological investigation of crustal fabric and seismic anisotropy of a major crustal suture zone, the Cheyenne Belt, Wyoming (NSF Geophysics)