I have always been fascinated by glaciers and the beautiful mountain landscapes produced by glacial erosion and deposition.  For years I have worked on glacial geology in the US Rocky Mountains, including geologic mapping for glacier reconstruction, paleoglaciology and glacier modeling, and dating of glacial advances.

Although it was published in 2009, one of my proudest accomplishments is the Glacial Geology Map of the Uinta Mountains that Ben Laabs (North Dakota State University) and I compiled for the Utah Geological Survey (UGS).  I mapped the north side of the Uintas for the US Forest Service during my PhD, and Ben did the same on the south side a few years later.  The UGS saw the value in compiling and publishing this mapping and supported us for a summer of fieldwork in which we unified our mapping legends, field-checked each other’s mapping, and consolidated the GIS files.

Glacial History of Great Basin National Park: My colleague Ben Laabs (North Dakota State University) and I were funded by the Great Basin Heritage Area to produce a glacial map of Great Basin National Park, to expand our work applying cosmogenic surface-exposure dating to moraines in the South Snake Range of Nevada, and to use terrestrial laser scanning to monitor movement on the Wheeler Peak (rock) glacier.