just north of Missoula at the base of the Mission Mnts, which are huge peaks made of Belt Supergroup rock	Wilderness of Judaea- 104 degrees F	isolated basalt columns in the middle of the Judaean Wilderness (Israel)	EDS element map of a thin section for my MS project	garnet zoning map created for my MS research	spending an evening with fellow geologist and astronaut, Dr. Jessica Watkins
carbon coating my thin sections	subsampling my thesis rocks with the rock saw	TAing a field trip with the mineralogy class to the Dillon, MT area	SEM-EDS	fieldtrip to SW Montana looking at the dominant sedimentary formations of the region-- this img shows the dinwoody and rex chert	volunteering at Super Science Saturday
fieldwork with my partner in the Gravelly Range	Fieldwork in the Highland Mountains	creating glass beads of ground rock powder for chemical analysis	defending my undergraduate thesis	fieldwork in the Tobacco Root Mountains	euhedral garnet porphyroblast
taking a quick break over looking a valley lake in Ireland	samples from the Highland Mountains show casing some amazing reaction rims of cordierite around garnet	sector zoning in metamorphic zircon under CL lighting	field work in red rock canyon, CO	Python models of a small portion of Greenlands outer ice sheet and it's movements due to meltwater	ICP_MS chemical analysis
secondary copper mineralization of pyrite, azurite, and malachite on this piece of ore rock from outside of Butte, MT (home to the largest copper deposit on Earth-- Berkley Pit)	fieldwork in the Tobacco Root Mnts	migmatic gneiss at the top of Thompsons Peak, SW Montana	ready to set out for a day in the field	trying to get a fresh sample of 3 Ga old formation isnt an easy task!	using an all-stations tripod for fieldwork on the Clarkfork River for a process geomorphology course-- featuring my field partner Claire
glacier national park	element mapping a fine grained clastic rock in sedimentary petrology	conducting stream surveys in Colorado	standing next to some basalt columns in Ireland	showcasing a wonderfully displayed fold in Colorado	virtual reality headset for viewing the subsurface of prospects-- AAPG ACE in Houston, Texas
Allosaurus footprint in New Mexico (hand for scale)	kyanite symplectites in gneiss from Montana	kyanite zoning shown under CL	after fieldwork in the swamps	fist sized garnet nodules	huge blades of kyanite and hornblende in rocks sampled from the Madison Range in the Northern Yellowstone area
using high sonic frequencies to disintegrate limestone	cutting marsh cores of sediment that have been frozen at -80 C	Bridges of Ross- Ireland	Top of Pikes Peak, CO	garbenschiefer boulders showing prismatic blades of orthoamphiboles in the Northern Madison Range	exploring a mine in Ireland
Having a friend help me out of a sticky situation	going over my field notes in Colorado after a long day	taking a lunch break from exploring a metamorphic field in Ireland	studying the Jackfork Group in Arkansas	studying the Jackfork Group in Arkansas	ruby grain under CL
volcanic rock on the beaches of Zanzibar	pausing for a picture while doing fieldwork in a valley in Ireland	spotting andalusite--southern Ireland	muddy fieldwork in the marsh	germanium detectors that we use to measure radioisotope activity in sediments	myrmekite texture
glacier national park