Field Experience

Grand Canyon, USA

Field Skills: NOLS Wilderness First Responder (80hr, cert. 2021, 2023), Expedition planning and backcountry travel, Geological mapping, Cave mapping, Karst feature surveys, Waters of the U.S. Surveying, Stream gaging, Sedimentary section logging, Helicopter sampling, Collection procedures for lava flow and boulder cosmogenic exposure dating, 40Ar/39Ar volcanic, and U-Pb granitoid and detrital zircon samples.

Villarrica Volcano, Chile

UW-Madison Graduate Field Experience, Iceland (2023)

Grand Canyon Vishnu Basement Field Forum III, AZ (2021)

Villarrica, Osorno, Calbuco Volcanoes, Chile (2019)

Edwards Aquifer Karst + Cave Surveys, TX (2015-2018)

UT-Austin Geology Field Camp, TX, NM, WY, MT (2018)

Field Photos

UW-Madison Grad Student Field Experience, Iceland (Spring 2023)

5/26/2023-6/10/2023: Collaborated with 20 graduate students and 3 faculty members to plan and execute a 10 day field excursion focused on volcanism, tectonics, and glacial features along the south coast of Iceland. This trip was supported by the UW-Madison Geoscience Graduate Student Field Experience Fund. Check out our field guide here.

 

Grand Canyon Field Forum III (Fall 2021)

9/11/2021-9/21/2021: Multi-instituional river-based field expedition in Grand Canyon National Park with a focus on middle crustal architecture, orogenic structure and formation, mass and heat transfer via metamorphism, plutonism and deformation. Personal research focus: (1) Hf isotope systematics in plutonic units. (2) Provenance of Archean detrital zircon grains in the Vishnu Schist.

 

Andean Southern Volcanic Zone (Austral Summer 2019)

1/2/2019 - 1/27/2019: Planned and executed a field season to document lava-ice contacts, Pleistocene-present volcanic histories, and local hazards at Villarrica and Calbuco Volcanoes (and surrounding areas, including Osorno and Lanin). Personal research focus: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology + geochemistry of Calbuco Volcano (see: Mixon et al., 2021).

 

UT Austin Field CAmp (GEO660, Summer 2018)

6 weeks, 5800 miles of driving, 200 miles of hiking, 30 nights of camping, and 42 deliverables across the "best of the west" including projects in Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana.