Education:

Ph.D. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (2006) “Testing models for the incremental growth of magma chambers and coupled displacement of host-rocks during pluton construction with an emphasis on magmatic stoping”.

B.Sc. Honours (1998) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, “Magnetic fabrics of the Barrington Passage pluton, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia”.

 

Geologic Work Experience:

Spring 2006:           Lecturer for Metamorphic Petrology at USC.

09/2004-05/2006: Research Assistant in the Rock and Paleomagnetism Laboratory at USC: Rock and paleomagnetic investigations from localities in the North and South American Cordillera (Dr. Steve Lund).

01/2003-09/2003: Research Assistant at USC: 3D geometric and kinematic reconstruction and interpretation of porphyroblast-matrix relationships from the Cascades Crystalline Core (Dr. Scott Paterson).

09/2001-12/2002: Instructor for Laboratory Classes at USC including: Engineering Geology, The Nature of Scientific Inquiry and The Process of Change in Science.

06/2000-07/2000: Instructor for Laboratory Class at USC (Environmental Geology).

01/2000-05/2000: Research Assistant at USC: Mapping, geometric reconstruction, and structural interpretation of the Tortuga Ophiolite, Tierra del Fuego, Southern Chile (Dr. Aaron Yoshinobu).

09/1998-12/1999: Instructor for Laboratory Classes including: Physical Geology, Environmental Geology, Engineering Geology and The Nature of Scientific Inquiry.

05/1996-03/1998: Research Assistant at the Geological Survey of Canada Rock and Paleomagnetism Laboratory, not continuous during this period, several contracts issued including multiple sub-contracts from Debeers Canada: Paleomagnetic investigations of diamond bearing kimberlite pipes, redbed sediments and Archean granitiods from various localities in Canada (Dr. Kenneth Buchan).

05/1995-08/1998: Research Assistant at the University of Ottawa: Structural and kinematic investigations of  magmatic systems using mapping, GIS, microstructural, and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility techniques (Dr. Keith Benn).

 

 

 Awards:

Fall 2003:

·        Awarded Dissertation Fellowship from USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Spring 2001:

·        Research Grant awarded from the Geological Society of America.

·        Geological Society of America Outstanding Student Research Award.

·        USC, Dept. of Earth Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Spring 2000:

·        USC, Dept. of Earth Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

·        USC Special Award to Acknowledge Outstanding Teaching; from the Center for Excellence in Teaching.

·        Research Grant awarded from Sigma-Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

Spring 1999:

·        USC, Dept. of Earth Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

·        Research Grant awarded from the Geological Society of America.

·        Research Grant awarded from Sigma-Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

·        Research Grant awarded from the Graduate Student Research Fund, Dept. of Earth Sciences, USC.

Fall 1998:

·        USC, Dept. of Earth Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Spring 1997:

·        Undergraduate Research Grant from the Geological Society of America Northeastern Section for honours thesis research at the University of Ottawa.

 

 

Membership in Professional Organizations:

·        Geological Society of America

·        American Geophysical Union

·        Geological Association of Canada.