This May 40 grad students, undergrads and faculty went for a weeklong trip through southern and central Scotland
Hi, I’m a graduate student in the Geosciences department at Princeton University. I work to try and constrain crustal, environmental and climate processes across Earth history. I use field and analytical techniques combined with modeling studies to investigate these processes. Time is the primary variable I use to tie these data sets together. Most models and hypotheses about Earth processes make predictions that can be tested in the time domain with high precision data. This has led to my focus in U-Pb geochronology via Thermal Ionozation Mass Spectrometery because its it currently one of the only ways to get age data precise enough to test model predictions.
I also worked for a mineral exploration consultancy based in Johannesburg prior to coming to Princeton. While working there I spent most of my time in Zambia, where we were looking for greenfields copper and gold targets.
MA in Geoscience, 2015
Princeton University
MSc in Geology, 2011
University of Cape Town
BSc in Geology, 2008
University of Cape Town
Ca isotopes can help constrain the origin of heavy and light carbon isotope plateaus in the Neoproterozoic
U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Sturtian Glaciation from northern Ethiopia
This May 40 grad students, undergrads and faculty went for a weeklong trip through southern and central Scotland
We got a bit of coverage in the Science News section for our work in Ethiopia!
I have been a teaching assistant for two main classes listed below: