With over 15 years of field experience with the Paleozoic strata of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana tristate area, I have a long-term research interest in the Ordovician and Silurian of the Midwest.
While I often work independently, I have strong history of collaboration with researchers at the University of Cincinnati Department of Geology and the Ohio Geological Survey. Please see my CV for a full list of publications and conference presentations.
Stratigraphy
I have extensive hands-on expertise with the Ordovician-Silurian rocks of the Cincinnati Arch and a near-encyclopedic knowledge of Cincinnatian localities. Throughout the years, I have assembled a large private locality database and public collection of outcrop photos (available on Flickr).
I have served as a field assistant and local guide for various researchers and students, and have led or co-led meeting field trips for the Geological Society of America, Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, and other conferences.
Key areas of interest, largely focused on the Ordovician (especially the Cincinnatian Series) and Silurian:
- High resolution regional correlation of stratigraphic units
- Sequence stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy
- Subsurface stratigraphy of the Cincinnati Arch and Illinois, Michigan, and Appalachian basins
- K-bentonites (volcanic ash beds) and other isochronous event beds
- Application of emerging technologies (drones, digitization, 3D data, artificial intelligence)
Paleontology
I have connections with the amateur paleontology community, commercial fossil collectors, and academic/professional paleontologists. My collecting and research focus on unusual echinoderms, mollusks, and problematica, mostly Early Paleozoic in age.