The University of British Columbia

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1) Geochemistry and tectonics of convergent margins: impact of slab windows/ridge subduction on magmagenic environment; temporal-compositional linkages related to progression from nascent to mature-stage magmatism; timescales of arc activity, maturation, and termination.
2) Planetary evolution: What's Earth been doing: long-term continuous crustal growth, or early segregation followed by crustal recycling at subduction zones? 
3) Relationship between copper-gold mineralization and subduction: Are these metals coming out of the subducted sediment component, or out of the mantle?

Tools:  Radiogenic isotopes, plutonic rock suite classification, plate kinematics and plate-margin reconstructions.

CURRENT PROJECT: Temporal and geochemical evolution of a subduction cycle: a case study of the Mesozoic Nicola Arc, southern Quesnel Terrane, Canadian Cordillera.

This project is in completion stages. Please, feel free to 'harass' me with offers of real, tangible employment, with a salary, even? Is that how the employment scene still works? I can hardly remember, I've been stuck in s-k-u-l-e for way too long. Anyways, grad-student-lifestyle bitterness aside, I can say I still love the work itself, and I do have some very cool results coming out imminently as even cooler papers -- Guaranteed to help you fall asleep on those insomniatic nights, if the chamomile tea (snerp!) and/or smooth tunes aren't doing the trick for ya.

1. Mesozoic U-Pb geochronology and magmatic trends of the southern Quesnel and Stikine terranes, Canadian Cordillera: episodic versus continuous emplacement style for the Nicola Arc.  [submitted: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences]

2. A lead-isotopic method for vectoring of Copper-Gold mineralization in the Mesozoic Nicola Arc assemblage, southern Quesnel Terrane, Canadian Cordillera. [in prep: Economic Geology]

3. Identifying slab contributions in arc magmas during early stages of a subduction cycle, Mesozoic Nicola Arc assemblage, southern Quesnel Terrane, Canadian Cordillera. [in prep: Journal of Petrology]

4. Tracing Precambrian sediments into the Nicola Arc subduction zone: Isotopic verifiation for a North American (continental) affinity for the "accreted" Quesnel Terrane, Canadian Cordillera. [in prep: Geological Society of America Bulletin]