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Sedimentary Geochemistry, Sediment Mineralogy, Clay Mineralogy, Mars Geology

My research centers on exploring chemical weathering and sediment generation in basaltic terrains, both on Earth and Mars; ultimately tracking geochemical and mineralogical transformations from source-to-sink.

low-temperature geochemistry, geobiology, surface processes

Mark is a biogeochemist that studies chemical weathering, organic carbon burial, and microbe-mineral interactions.

Experimental petrology, Earth's deep interior, Deep volatiles cycling, Earth's and Planetary differentiation

sequence stratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, geology, exploration geophysics

Peter Vail revolutionized the interpretation of seismic data in oil exploration by showing that seismic reflections correlate with global sea level changes.

Stable isotope geochemistry, chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology.

I am interested in developing novel clumped isotope tracers to help understand biogeochemical cycling in the past and the present. I aim to apply stable isotope techniques to better characterize microbial processes in the surface and deep ocean.

I have done two independent projects. For the first I examined stromatolite growth and distribution to determine paleoclimate of the area and for the second I imaged the depth of the Moho beneath Princeton.

petrophysics, compaction trends, pore structure evolution, Lattice-Boltzmann, fracture propogation

My research focus lies in understanding petrophysical responses of shale and pore-structure evolution upon fluid injection and expansion.

Plate Tectonics, Geodynamics, Tectonophysics.

Plate velocities relative to global hotspot reference frame;
Hotspot motion from surface observation of hotspot track trends;
Pattern of seismic anisotropy and relationship with absolute plate motion.

Structural Geology; Reservoir Characterization; Well logging; Discrete Element Method; Geomechanics

Numerical Simulations of Forearc Deformation and Stress Switching

Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Paleomagnetism