All photos by M. Flansburg unless noted otherwise.
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, where I am starting to set-up my structure and petrochronology lab!
I earned my PhD from the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT-Austin in 2022 and I self-describe as a “structural petrochronologist”—my research lies at the intersection of structural geology and tectonics, geo- and thermochronology, and petrology and I enjoy working in the field and in the lab. I am particularly interested in dating faults and shear zones and reconstructing long-term thermal histories in exhumed metamorphic terranes—both contractional and extensional. My work has taken me to the U.S. Basin & Range and Cordillera, the Greek Cyclades, as well as the central Atlantic Blue Ridge/Appalachians, but I have been fortunate to see geology in many other places including eastern Siberia and the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. I am passionate about teaching and engaging research at the undergraduate level, as well as civic (geo)science literacy and the access of geoscience education and JEDI in the geosciences.
Besides looking at or talking about rocks, I enjoy gardening, kayaking, watercolors, reading, taking walks, and cooking with my husband.
Education
PhD Geological Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin, 2022
M.S. Geological Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin, 2018
B.S. Geology; Environmental Science & Policy (double major)
The College of William & Mary, 2015
Photo by Chuck Bailey
“O earth, what changes hast thou seen!”
Alfred Lord Tennyson