Introduction

My website presents examples of past collaborative research and ongoing research in my new role as Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University.  I retired at the end of June 2021 having thoroughly enjoyed 31 years of teaching, research, and administration at Carleton (1992-2021), and as Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo (1991-92) and University of British Colombia (1990-91).

It has been a privilege being a university professor: teacher and researcher, I brought my academic and real world experiences in field geology, geophysics, and geochemistry into the classroom and research environments to help explain theory and applications to undergraduate and graduate students. 

My past research focused largely on carbonate depositional systems and attendant diagenetic systems. Projects were associated with shallow to deep-water tropical settings of Neogene age; shelf and ramp settings in tropical and temperate latitudes of Paleozoic and Cenozoic ages; mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits; and, on occasion, delving into specific siliciclastic systems because they were intercalated with carbonate and there was no one else around to study them. Over the years I used stratigraphy and sedimentology to develop a better understanding of basin development, a long-standing project being the Middle to Upper Ordovician foreland-basin succession that underlies the Ottawa Valley and eastern Ontario. 

Research continues through retirement, but maybe at a slower pace. There seems to be lot more siliciclastic content in my stratigraphic sections forcing me back to the textbooks and papers! I am providing geochemical data of Cretaceous and Paleogene oysters for colleagues in Argentina who are unravelling timing of marine transgressions and paleoenvironments; and I have spent weeks involved in taxonomic paleontology. One never stops learning!

See the website menu for details of past and present research.

December 15, 2021