My Research
My research is currently focused on the coupling of landscape evolution to the development of basins and their stratigraphic records. With Nicole Gasparini, I am developing a model to show that processes that build erosional landscapes are coupled to those that develop sedimentary basins. Along with other questions, I will be using the model to investigate how landscapes and basins respond to variable tectonic forcing, and whether responses to such forcing are preserved in the stratigraphic architecture.
This summer (2020) I will be involved in a lab experiment investigating the response of terrestrial depositional settings to periodic sediment supply signals. And will later be working on the propagation of signals across the shoreline with Kyle Straub.
My Story
I am a Rwandan that grew up between Kigali and Bukavu (D.R. Congo). I went to school in Bukavu through University. Then, I went to Syracuse University in New York where I completed my master’s degree focusing on the basin analysis of lacustrine rifts. I have always been a student with multiple interests in the Earth sciences. Broad themes that have interested me in the past are basin analysis, continental rifting, volcanism, exploration geology, active- and passive-source seismic methods, and numerical methods. I am fluent in four human languages and two scientific programming languages.
