Conducting fieldwork in the San Jorge basin of the Argentine Patagonia to gather samples from uplifted river terraces and drainage basins for cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating (December 2022).
This is a shot of the Cordillera de Ansilta (Frontal Cordillera) of Argentina that I took when we did a short side trip to the 120 km-long El Tigre Fault on my first fieldwork season in October 2016.
This image shows a natural exposure of a cumulative scarp of the La Rinconada Fault (El Molino site), San Juan, Argentina— one of the most active thrust zones on earth. If you’d like to know more about this fault, please check out our 2019 paper entitled, “Late Quaternary Activity of the La Rinconada Fault Zone, San Juan, Argentina“ in Tectonics.
This is one of the 4 trenches I excavated for my master’s on the coseismic ground deformation of the 2013 Bohol Earthquake.
I’ve been involved in the documentation of the coseismic ground rupture of two very recent earthquakes in the Philippines— the 2012 Mw 6.9 Negros and 2013 Mw 7.2 Bohol Earthquakes in Central Philippines.
I do a combination of field- and remote-sensing based geologic and geomorphic mapping to identify key sites for determining the style, kinematics, distribution, and rates of movement of surface deformation features that I study.
This is a picture of a vial containing AgCl that we extracted from one of the carbonate samples that I got from a key site along the La Rinconada Fault (LRF) in Argentina. This sample is for cosmogenic radionuclide surface exposure dating of strath terraces offset by the LRF. This is just one of the many samples that were sent to the Accelerator Mass Spectrometer in Purdue University’s PRIME Lab for analysis.
I have been a teaching assistant (TA) at UofT’s Mississauga Campus since 2016 for lab courses in Optical Mineralogy, Petrology and Petrography, and Structural Geology.
