Basin analysis in ancient sedimentary basins

Ancient sedimentary basins host extended records of climate and tectonics over millions of years of Earth history. We are particularly interested in understanding the influence of active tectonics in partitioning accommodation and sediment dispersal systems and the influence of dynamic uplift in circum-Gulf of Mexico settings. Current field areas include the Southern High Plains and west Texas.

https://www.earthdoc.org/content/journals/10.1111/bre.12512

Climate records & sedimentary processes in “young” coastal and marine systems

Pleistocene to modern coastal and marine sedimentary systems both host records of past climate and environmental conditions and are home to hundreds of millions of people and billions of dollars in infrastructure globally. We study the dynamic processes by which these environments are built and the natural regional and global climate drivers and anthropogenic processes that shape their evolution through time. Current field areas include the Texas Coastal Bend and San Francisco Bay, California.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379119303919

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article/86/11/1298/321152/Detrital-Zircon-Mixing-and-Partitioning-In-Fluvial

Sand mining

Natural sand and gravel are the world’s most-extracted solid material resource. Understanding the impacts of this extraction on natural sedimentary systems and improving ways to monitor and trace sand-supply networks are critical components of a sustainable future. Current projects include mapping sand mining extractions on the Ganges River in Bangladesh and developing new methods to “fingerprint” construction sand-supply networks with conventional sedimentary provenance and novel machine learning image analysis methods.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01071-2

https://eos.org/articles/sandy-fingerprints-trace-supply-sources

https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/GSAToday/groundwork/G558GW/article.aspx