As a Teaching Assistant Professor at WVU, my primary responsibilities are aimed at developing and teaching a variety of lower- and upper-division undergraduate geology courses. One of my goals is to provide a memorable classroom experience that will have a strong, positive impact on my students. Central to these responsibilities is ensuring that my students have all of the necessary skills required to become effective geoscientists. Beyond the classroom, I have a broad range of research interests. Specifically, my research interests focus on placing new and important constraints on 1) the exchange processes operating between the crust and mantle in convergent margin settings; 2) the physiochemical links between plutonism and volcanism; 3) applications of mineral-scale isotope and geochronologic methods in the geosciences; 4) using stable and radiogenic isotope systems in geoarcheaology and foresnic geology; and 5) using geochemistry to solve environmental problems that impact human health.
