Current Research
Our current and future research is aimed at examining displacement and distortion in convergent margins. We currently conducting research programs in the Tama Kosi area of east-central Nepal, the Kanchenjuga region of far east Nepal, the Hindu Kush of northwestern Pakistan and the Canadian Arctic. We have also started projects in the Canadian Cordillera and Appalachians. This diversity of study areas provide an opportunity to examine the exhumed middle to lower crust across a variety of different orogens with different styles. This type of research enables us to identify and track common processes across these orogens through time.
Geochronology/Quartz CPO Software
We have recently started writing our own software for plotting/processing U(-Th)-Pb geochronology and quartz c-axis crystallographic preferred orientations. The software is written using the open-source R platform and the different packages are hosted through the Open Science Foundation. The packages, ChrontouR and FabricPlotR, have DOIs for citations.