Current Research

I primarily conduct research on icy satellites in the outer solar system.

Cryovolcanism on Enceladus and Europa

As a Ph.D. Student at the University of Oregon, I will be working on a geophysical model of fractures in the ice shell and a multiphase model of plumes carrying water from the interior ocean into the exosphere.

Geology of the Rocky Interior

While at NC State University, I worked on a numerical analysis tool to measure overburden stress inside icy satellites. This was then used to determine the possibility of faulting occurring at the ocean floor.

Poster presented at the McCormick Symposium at NC State University in May 2018

Past Research

Numerical Modeling of Thrust-and-Fold Belts

While at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa for an REU, I worked on a numerical model of thrust-and-fold belts. The model treated a layer of crust as a visco-elastic-plastic continuum that was carried to a rigid backstop by a basal décollement. The model was used to try to discern what mechanisms may be controlling fault spacing in the thrust-and-fold belts.