My research focuses primarily on how the crust deforms at plate boundaries.
This includes (1) exploring fluid flow, P-T conditions and kinematics of faults
in fossil accretionary wedges, (2) characterizing the geometry of seismogenic
strain at active convergent and transcurrent margins, and (3) addressing
coupling across subduction zones.
My current emphasis is on the following specific projects:
- the
controls on great subduction zone earthquakes, Nankai Trough (IODP
Expedition 315)
- contemporary
deformation in the hangingwall of the Cocos Ridge collision, Costa Rica
- active
and ancient arc-continent collisions (Taiwan & Taconic Orogen,
respectively)
- the
relation between GPS-derived strain and seismogenic strain, Coso Range, CA
- fluid
flux in the western Valley & Ridge and Allegheny Plateau Provinces of
Pennsylvania (nascent project)