My research focuses on marine geology, geological oceanography, environmental geochemistry, sedimentology, and seafloor mapping. I investigate processes operating across coastal, estuarine, continental margin, and deep-sea environments using field observations, laboratory analyses, GIS, and quantitative approaches.
Current work spans environmental contamination, submarine canyons, biosiliceous sediment diagenesis, hydrothermal systems, and Earth surface processes.
Current Featured Research
Moss Landing Battery Fire (EMBER)
Environmental impacts of the January 2025 lithium-ion battery fire, including metal deposition, transport, persistence, and ecological effects.
Additional Research Areas
- Monterey Canyon morphodynamics
- Guaymas Basin hydrothermal systems
- Silica diagenesis
- Marine sedimentology
- Coastal geochemistry
- Seafloor mapping
- Deep biosphere
- Paleoceanography