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Education
Ph.D., Solid Earth Processes (2016)
Cardiff University
Igneous Petrology/Electron Beam Analysis: The role of the axial melt lens at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges.
M.Sc., Geological Sciences (2013)
University of Houston
Igneous Petrology: Arc foundations and the initiation of subduction in the Izu-Bonin forearc.
B.S., Geology with Honors (2011)
University of Houston
Temporal variations of melt stagnation in a back-arc lithospheric section: Systematics of plagioclase impregnation in mantle rocks from the Godzilla Megamullion.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Research
Louisiana State University
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Lab Director & Research Scientist
Louisiana State University
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Lab Director & Research Engineering Scientist
University of Texas at Arlington
Director of the Shimadzu Center for Environmental, Forensics, and Material Science in the Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies - University of Texas at Arlington
Postgraduate Researcher
Cardiff University
Lab manager of the Zeiss Sigma HD scanning electron microscope and teaching assistant for Plate Tectonics, Earth Materials, Field Methods, Lizard/Penzance Field Course, Cyprus Field Course, and Applied Mineralogy.
Research Assistant
University of Houston
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Houston
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Houston
Analytical Expertise
Electron Beam Methods:
Electron Probe Microanalysis
Scanning Electron Microscopy
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Transmission Electron Microscopy
X-ray Methods:
X-ray Diffractometry
X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (including µXRF)
X-ray micro-Computed Tomography
Elemental & Molecular Spectrometry:
ICP-Optical Emission Spectrometry
ICP-Mass Spectrometry (+Laser Ablation)
Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (Flame + Graphite Furnace)
Total Organic/Inorganic Carbon (Solid + Liquid)
UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometry
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry
Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Other Methods:
Atomic Force Microscopy
Laser-Diffraction Particle Size Analysis
UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometry