Funded Projects
NSF/La. EPSCoR, Interaction between faulting and igneous dike injection on Mars: Developing analogues for rift processes on Earth, 2014
La. Board of Regents, Recruitment and mentoring of superior doctoral students in earth and environmental sciences at Tulane University, 2014-2019
Petroleum Research Fund, ACS, Predicting channel geometry in faulted hydrocarbon reservoirs, 2011-2014
Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Quantifying fault-related subsidence rates and landscape response to faulting in southeastern Louisiana, 2011-2012 (CoPI's Nicole Gasparini, Zhixiong Shen, Tor Tornqvist)
La. Board of Regents, Recruitment of superior doctoral students in earth and environmental sciences at Tulane University, 2005-2012 (Co PI Steve Nelson)
US Geological Survey, Long-Term Estuary Assessment Group (LEAG): The Mississippi River as a supplier and transformer of inputs to the wetlands and gulf: Investigation of subsidence in the lower Mississippi River basin, 2006-2008 (Lead PI John McLachlan)
NSF-Tectonics, Collaborative Research: Reconciling geologic and geodetic rates of deformation: The role of distributed strain in the upper crust, 2004-2007; Extended to 2008 (CoPI’s Eric Kirby, Penn State, & Doug Burbank, UCSB)
NSF-Tectonics, Can we constrain the evolution of crustal-scale normal fault arrays using geomorphic and structural criteria?, 2002-2006; Extended through June 2007 (International Collaborators Alex Densmore, ETH, & Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College)
Petroleum Research Fund, ACS, The Baton Rouge growth-fault, Louisiana: structural evolution, recent activity and impact on sedimentary dispersal systems, 2003-2006
La. Governor's Office of Coastal Activities, Fault-related changes in Louisiana Coastal Geometry, 2003-2004
Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists' (SIPES) Foundation, Expansion of Tulane’s 3D seismic interpretation lab, 2002
La. Board of Regents' Support Fund, Research Competitiveness Program, Influence of fault growth and interaction on drainage patterns in extensional basins, 2001-2004
Current and Recent Students
Current
Michael Hopkins, Ph.D candidate; Landscape evolution in extensional relay ramps: An examination of fluvial system evolution
Elizabeth A.C. Boden, Ph.D. student; Dike-related normal faulting, southwest Tharsis, Mars
Bobola Akintomide, Ph.D. student; Evolution of the Golden Meadow fault and Terrebonne Trough, southeast Louisiana
Chris Young, M.S. student; Using paleolake shorelines as recorders relay ramp deformation
Graduated
Xu Zhou, M.S., 2015, Fault scaling and population analyses in the Eastern California Shear Zone: Insights into the development of actively evolving plate boundary structures
Timothy Sheehan, Ph.D., 2007; Evolution of Neogene fault populations in northern Owens Valley, California, and implications for the Eastern California Shear Zone
Emily Martin, M.S., 2006; Fault induced subsidence near Empire and Bastian Bay, Louisiana
Merethe Lindanger, M.S. (non-thesis), 2006
Jennifer Wilson Connolly, M.S., 2005; Thesis: Normal faulting in the Basin & Range: Slip rate modeling and fault population statistics
Other Recent Activities
AAPG, Imperial Barrel Award, faculty advisor, 2014 & 2016
Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Tulane School of Science & Engineering, 2012-2015
Chair, Graduate Committee, Tulane Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, 2012-2015
Tulane Senate Committee on Research Fellowships, 2012-2014
Geology, Editorial Board, 2009-2011
AAPG 2010 in New Orleans, Vice-Chair of Organizing Committee
GSA, Structural Geology & Tectonics Division, Laubach Research Grant Committee, 2010
GSA, Field Forum Co-leader - Structure and neotectonic evolution of northern Owens Valley and the Volcanic Tableland, California, 2009
AAPG House of Delegates, 2006-2009 (Alternate, representing New Orleans Geological Society)
Tulane School of Science & Engineering Promotion & Tenure Committee, 2007-2010
Newcomb-Tulane College Honor Board Advisor, 2007-2010
Tulane Center for Public Service Executive Committee, 2006-2009
Tulane Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Advisor, 2006-2011
Alumni Board, University of Kentucky Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, 2005-2006
GSA, Structural Geology & Tectonics DivisionBest Paper Award Committee, 2004-2007
New Orleans Geological Society Board, Secretary, 2004-2005
AAPG Academic Liaison Committee, 2002-2005
Special Sessions Convened: SE GSA 2011, AGU 2010, AAPG 2004, AGU 2003, AAPG-SEPM 2001
