I’m a field geologist passionate about the Earth’s surface and shallow-crust geological processes that drive landscape evolution and sediment dynamics in mountainous regions (erosional “source”) and form clastic stratigraphy in sedimentary basins (depositional “sink”). When I’m not immersed in research, I enjoy hiking, playing basketball, and snowboarding.

I am currently working at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, where I collaborate with Dr. Jacob Covault, Dr. Zoltán Sylvester, and other researchers in the Quantitative Clastics Laboratory. My ongoing projects involve investigating deep-water depositional processes, signals of slope instability, and the stratigraphy of turbidites and mass-transport deposits in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the Gulf of Mexico, and potentially eastern Taiwan (soon). Additionally, I am examining the implications of these studies for source-to-sink sediment dynamics and paleoseismology reconstruction.

I continue my collaborations with scholars from my previous position at the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, where I work with Dr. Alison Duvall and the Cascadia COPEs Hub team on landslide-related geomorphology. This part of my research focuses on landslide history and post-landslide landform recovery in the Pacific Northwest, as well as examining how river sediment influences landscape evolution in landslide-prone terrains, such as the mountains of Taiwan and New Zealand.