Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Economic Geology
- Geochemistry
- Petrology, Mineralogy, and Earth Materials
Areas of Interest
My research uses high pressure and temperature experiments to investigate how elements distribute themselves during geologic processes. This information has wide-ranging applications in petrology for studies that span the microscopic to the planetary scale. To date, I have focused on the latter of these scales – using highly siderophile elements to constrain the conditions of core-formation, the quantity of late-accreted material added to Earth’s mantle, and the effects of core-mantle interaction.
Planned areas of future study include:
– Trace element partitioning in highly (up to ~40 wt%) REE-enriched melts
– Fluoride melt formation in the upper mantle
– Fe-isotope fractionation in iron meteorites
– Siderophile element partitioning between oxide and metal melts