Colleagues and I have a couple of new publications from our work in the Greater Caucasus to report:
First up, a new paper in Tektonika, which presents some geologic constraints on shortening across the western GC from line-length and area balanced cross sections. https://doi.org/10.55575/tektonika2023.1.2.50 And second, an effort led by Dylan Vasey investigating the long-term evolution of the northern margin of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone using detrital zircon geochronology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12825 After several years of field investigations and data analysis, my work with USGS colleagues investigating seismic sources in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of northern California is beginning to be published.
The first paper, reporting my work with some USGS colleagues on a strand of the Great Valley Fault System near Winters, CA, is out now in The Seismic Record. https://doi.org/10.1785/0320220029 More to come soon! New paper out in Geosphere! A deep dive into tectonostratigraphy and teasing out the structural architecture of the western Greater Caucasus. Recommended if you like big questions, tiny details, and maps maps maps...
Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02385.1 My work on shortening rates in the Rioni foreland basin of the western Greater Caucasus has just been published in EPSL. You can access it here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2030306X?dgcid=author Amid the pandemic and everything that the entire world is going through right now, I also have made a few big life changes. My time as visiting faculty at Ohio Wesleyan has come to an end, and I've made the trip back to the west coast to start a Mendenhall postdoctoral fellowship at the USGS Earthquake Science Center. I'm sad to leave teaching behind, but also very excited to dig back into scientific research on some new projects in a familiar part of the world. Bring on the science!
I'm taking the summer months to return to my old research group at the University of California, Davis, to focus on our ongoing work in the Greater Caucasus Mountains. It's nice to be back in California - it has been a hot summer so far, but at least the air is dry! In addition to my research goals, I'm hoping to find some time to revisit the high country in the Sierra Nevada mountains before I return to Ohio in early August.
I'm planning to attend the Geological Society of America meeting in Phoenix in September -- if you'll be there and would like to chat, please let me know! And finally, I've been invited to talk about my Caucasus research as part of the fall seminar series at the University of Nevada, Reno, in early October. More details to come soon. I'll be presenting my Greater Caucasus research in two seminars next month. I'll be visiting Denison University on March 5th, and then I'll travel to the University of Cincinnati on March 8th.
Are you attending the GSA meeting in Indianapolis? I'll be there Sunday through Tuesday morning. I'll be presenting a portion of my PhD work in the poster session on Sunday afternoon. Please stop by!
I'm honored to be starting as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology & Geography at Ohio Wesleyan University!
I'll be defending my PhD on June 7th, 2018. The public talk will be at noon in the Earth & Physical Sciences building, room 1348.
My public talk will be part two of the week we're calling 'Georgiapalooza.' My friend, colleague, and lab-mate Dylan Vasey will be presenting his Masters' work on Wednesday June 6th. |