Educational Background:
Ph.D. in Geology, University of Minnesota.
Dissertation Title: Strain Analysis, Rheological Constraints, and Tectonic Model for an Archean Polymictic Conglomerate: Superior Province, Ontario, Canada. (Peter Hudleston, advisor)
- Includes a synthesis of field work, mathematical strain theory, rheological and microstructural study, and analogue modelling. Developed a theoretical kinematic model that explains oblique lineations within transpression, used deformed polymictic conglomerates to study deformation in rheologically complex rocks, and created a tectonic model that describes the accretion of a portion of the Superior Province.
B. S. with High Distinction and honors in Geology, minor in Mathematics, University of Iowa.
Honors Thesis Title: Middle Devonian faults and joints, Coralville Spillway, east-central Iowa; a brittle manifestation of the Acadian Orogeny in the Midcontinent. (Jim Faulds, advisor)
- Mapping and analysis of small faults and joints.
Professional Background:
Associate Professor 2009-present, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Assistant Professor 2003-2009, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Classes Taught:
- Introduction to the Earth
- Structural Geology
- Structural Styles Around the World
- Advanced Structural Geology
- Directed Fieldtrip: Geology of Dinosaur National Monument and the
- Colorado Plateau
- Tectonic History of Wisconsin and Surrounding Regions
Assistant Professor 2002-2003, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Classes Taught:
- Structural Geology
- Dynamic Earth
- Field Geology
Visiting Assistant Professor 2001-2002, Oberlin College
Classes Taught:
- Structural Geology
- Dinosaurs
- Evolution of the Earth
- Geology Gone Wrong
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant 1995-2001, University of Minnesota
Classes Assisted:
- Structural Geology
- Geodynamics
- Petrology
- Introductory Geology
- Introductory Field Camp, Montana
- Advanced Field Camp, Idaho
- Volcanoes
- Dinosaurs
- Oceanography
- Planet Earth
- Graduate Level Seminar: Analogue Modelling
- Graduate Level Field Trip: Regional Geology of Washington State
Intern 1995, USGS Raleigh, NC.
- Helped with the National Water Quality Assessment Program.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 1993-1995 University of Iowa
- Structural Geology and Paleomagnetism with Jim Faulds
- Coral Paleontology with Nancy Budd
- Pesticides in Karst systems with Bob Libra (Iowa Geological Survey)