Gallery
A collection of fieldwork activities, research endeavors, conference shenanigans, and cool geology or geomorphology in the wild!
Department photo of the UVA Department of Environmental Sciences, Fall 2025. So grateful to be part of this amazing group of people!
November 5, 2025
At an overlook of the Rockfish Valley, VA during a field trip with undergraduates. I am holding up the whiteboard where I showed the visual difference between the ancient and modern Appalachian Mountains.
October 4, 2025
Humpback Rocks Overlook, VA - These large slabs are made of the 600 million year old Catoctin greenstone. This formation was previously a basalt erupting from the bottom of the ocean, but was metamorphosed and uplifted to 3,080 feet in elevation.
September 19, 2025
Overlooking the Shenandoah Valley from a part of the Appalachian Trail - Shenandoah National Park.
August 31, 2025
The absolutely stunning basalt columns of Stuðlagil Canyon, Iceland. These columns are miraculously formed by cooling and contracting basaltic lava and are some of my favorite scenic aspects of geology.
June 25, 2025
Large glacial outwash plain, near Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland - Vast, braided channels originate from meltwater of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier.
June 23, 2025
So incredibly grateful for my time at Penn State. I am indebted to the many people who had such an impact on my life and education here. I'm posing with the sign for the building that I (gladly) spent hundreds of hours in.
May 10, 2025
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Presenting my undergraduate thesis! This was the final degree requirement to confer my Bachelor's degree.
April 25, 2025
Measuring paleoflow directions of the Morrison Formation in the San Rafael Swell, Utah. This was such a fun week with my former labmates at PSU, Zach and Miranda.
March 20, 2025
Beautifully preserved crossbedding in the Morrison Formation.
March 19, 2025
A snowy venture to Bilger's Rocks, NW of State College, PA. Crossbeds galore here!
February 1, 2025
Showing off my poster at the AGU Fall Meeting to intrigued attendees.
December 13, 2024
At the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington D.C., where I presented my research about fluvial sedimentary rocks on Mars.
December 10, 2024