About
After graduate school, I taught Paleontology and Earth History at Central Michigan University, worked at a non profit at specializing in Great Lakes and energy conservation programs, and worked as a geologist at an engineering company focusing on Integrity Management of Oil and Gas infrastructure. I obtained my Professional Geologist License two years ago and have supported various projects involving corrosion mitigation and geohazard analysis.
My prior research experience in college involved investigating sources and distribution of boron contaminants in gold mine tailings in Canada. My graduate research focus was about the timing, petrogenesis, and paleo stress of a suite lithologically diverse E-W striking dikes emplaced during early Rio Grande Rifting in south-central New Mexico. I have also worked on young tholeiitic basalt flows in the Rio Grande Rift / Colorado Plateau region of New Mexico to use whole rock geohemistries, Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes, olivine-hosted melt inclusions, and single crystal analyses to evaluate the role of mafic crustal assimilation processes during petrogenesis.
My main role at the NRRI is to assist our Economic Geologist to help characterize deposits for critical minerals and to collaborate with the Minerals and Metallurgy group to support processes and efficiencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and development of renewable energy infrastructure and sustainable economies of the future.
Education
- Masters of Science Degree - New Mexico State University
- Bachelors of Science Degree - Central Michigan University