I’m excited to start as an Assistant Professor in the department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science (EOAS) at Florida State University, where I will also be teaching structural geology. Students interested in joining my group are encouraged to contact me directly.

I developed a tutorial on using Using Git and GitHub for scientific collaboration. The slides were created for the Earth Systems Modelling class at Georgia Tech.

I presented new research on two-phase flow at the Community Infrastructure for Geodynamics meeting in Breckenridge.

In our recent paper published in EPSL, “Reactive thermodynamics of crustal eclogitization and foundering,” we argue that lithospheric foundering could be a predictable outcome of subduction. In doing so, we take a deep dive into the thermodynamics of the granulite-eclogite phase transition and how water catalyzes these reactions.

My poster summarizing some recent results will be titled “Eclogitization of the lower crust: A reactive thermodynamic-geodynamic approach” - coauthors Shi Joyce Sim and Cian Wilson.

I will be giving my talk, “Reactive thermodynamics of crustal foundering,” at the AGU 2023 fall meeting in San Francisco. The session is “Orogeny and its Processes” and is sure to be interesting.

Our lithospheric drip modelling paper is published in Geophysical Research Letters and is titled “Plateau formation controlled by lithospheric foundering under a weak crust.” We show how a lithospheric drip affects an actively growing mountain belt.

Our comprehensive synthesis of lithspheric dripping, “Diverse styles of lithospheric dripping: Synthesizing gravitational instability models, continental tectonics, and geologic observations,” is published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. This is the most up-to-date review of every location where lithospheric dripping has been proposed on Earth, and we find some evidence for different styles of dripping.