Education:
2002 Ph.D., MIT/WHOI Joint Program
1996 B.S., Bates College, summa cum laude, w/ highest Honors in Geology
Appointments:
2011– Associate Scientist w/ Tenure, Dept. Geology & Geophysics, WHOI
2008–2011 Associate Scientist w/o Tenure, Dept. Geology & Geophysics, WHOI
2004–2008 Assistant Scientist, Dept. Geology & Geophysics, WHOI
2002–2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, DTM, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Awards:
2010–2013 Fellow, WHOI Deep Ocean Exploration Institute
2000 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
1997–2000 Department of Defense Graduate Fellowship
1996 Sigma Xi, Southern Maine Chapter
1996 Louis Jordan Jr. Award (most outstanding senior thesis of a graduating geology major)
1996 Milton L. Lindholm Scholar-Athlete Award
1995 Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma of Maine Chapter
1993 Charles A. Dana Award Scholar, Bates College
1992 Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America
Professional Societies:
2009– Geochemical Society
2000– American Association for the Advancement of Science
1997– American Geophysical Union
1995– Geological Society of America
Service to the Community:
2013– Co-Chair, Geodynamics Focus Research Group, CSMDS
2011– Associated Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth)
2011– Magma Dynamics Working Group, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
2011–2014 AGU Tectonophysics Section Nominating Committee
2013 NSF-OPP Arctic Natural Sciences Panel Member
2013 Goldschmidt Session Convener
2008–2010 MARGINS/GeoPRISMS Steering Committee
2010 Co-writer, MARGINS Successor Draft Science Plan
2010 Co-convener, MARGINS Successor Planning Workshop, San Antonio, TX
2009 Co-convener, MARGINS RCL Planning Workshop, Charleston, SC
2008–2009 AGU Fall Meeting Planning Committee, Tectonophysics Representative
Manuscript Reviewer: Nature, Nature Geoscience, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Journal International, Geology, Geofluids, Marine Geophysical Researches, Chemical Geology, Tectonics, Tectonophysics, and AGU Geophysical Monograph Series
Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation, IODP, NASA, NERC, Petroleum Research Fund, and InterRidge Student Fellowship Program
Educational Activities:
Advising: Gina Applebee (WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 2007), Jennifer Barry (WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 2005), Robert Bialas (Ph.D., 2009, External Examiner; LDEO), Claire Bucholz (Generals Project co-advisor, Ph.D. committee member; MIT/WHOI), Min Ding (Ph.D. 2015, committee member; MIT/WHOI), Jimmy Elsenbeck (M.Sc., 2007, co-advisor; MIT/WHOI), Patricia Gregg (Ph.D., 2008, co-advisor; MIT/WHOI), Yoshi Kaneko (WHOI Postdoctoral Investigator, co-advisor), Michael Krawczynski (Ph.D., 2011, Generals Project advisor and committee member; MIT/WHOI), Hannah Mark (Ph.D. co-advisor; MIT/WHOI), Nathan Miller (Ph.D. 2013, Generals Project advisor and committee member; MIT/WHOI), Jean-Arthur Olive (Ph.D. 2015, Primary Advisor; MIT/WHOI), Emily Roland (Ph.D. 2011, Generals Project advisor and committee member; MIT/WHOI), Gilles Seropian (WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 2015), William Shinevar (WHOI Summer Student Fellow, 2014), Laura Stevens (Ph.D. co-advisor; MIT/WHOI), Christy Till (Ph.D. 2011, committee member; MIT), Ikuko Wada (MARGINS Postdoctoral Fellow, co-advisor), Dorsey Wanless (WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar, co-advisor), Nan Zhang (WHOI Postdoctoral Investigator, advisor)
Teaching: 12.521 Computational Geodynamics (2009, 2011, 2014), 12.718 Kinetics and Mass Transport (2015), 12.751 Seminar in Geology and Geophysics (Fall 2006–2014), 12.753 Geodynamics Seminar (2006, 2010), GEOL2910G Dynamics of Ice Sheets & Glaciers (co-taught at Brown University, Spring 2013)
Sea & Field Experience:
- 2007–2014 Deployment of geophysical instruments (GPS, seismometers, pressure sensors) to monitor seasonal drainage of two lakes around Jakobshavn Isbrae in western Greenland, 8 spring/summer field seasons.
- 2014 Controlled source seismic experiment across the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
- 2010 Shipboard scientist, Seafloor mapping along the western Galapagos spreading center (92–95ºW) using Alvin, AUV Sentry, and CameraTow systems, R/V Atlantis.
- 2005 Shipboard geophysicist, Deployment of an acoustic extensometer array on the southeast flank of Kilauea volcano, Hawai’i, R/V Kilo Moana.
- 2000 Shipboard geophysicist, Ocean-bottom seismic refraction and multi channel seismic reflection study of the interactions between the Galápagos hotspot and Cocos-Nazca spreading center.
- 1997 Shipboard geophysicist, NOBEL towed-source seismic refraction experiment of the shallow crustal structure of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, R/V Ewing.