Research Interests

My research interests relate broadly to solid earth processes and how they drive global scale elemental fluxes and create the conditions for planetary habitability.  Processes such as tectonic plate motion, interactions at plate boundaries, and a spectrum of fluid-mediated processes create and accumulate material suitable for supporting life and cycle volatiles and other gases from the solid earth to the atmosphere and ocean and then back again to the solid earth.  I address science questions connected to these processes using seismic techniques.