Targets of Interest: Earth

Disciplines/Techniques: Geology, Field Work, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy, Tectonics

Mission Roles: Instrument Co-Investigator

Instruments: Rapid Access Ice Drill, Electron Microprobe, Scanning Electron Microscope, Ion Microprobe

Continental tectonics, metamorphic petrology, structural geology, isotope geochemistry and thermochronology. Continental growth during convergent-margin and collisional orogenesis. Active research in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, and the subglacial geology of East Antarctica.