I am interested in poroelastic behavior of rocks and geodynamical modeling because they link observations to geologic processes. Different poroelastic properties of rock, such as permeability and specific storage, can be measured in my laboratory. Two ongoing projects are to examine the effects of fracture deformability on reservoir production and to examine the effects of poroelastic response in a fractured, dual porosity reservoir. The research is sponsored by the Geosciences Program in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy. My interest in quantifying geodynamical processes has been the result of interactions with Professors Medaris, Johnson , and Valley , I have developed numerical models to interpret thermal histories from diffusion profiles in minerals. I showed that the double porosity model for fracture flow can be used in problems of cation and oxygen isotope diffusion.

I teach a variety of courses including Energy Resources, Advanced Hydrogeology, Global Geophysics, and Tectonophysics.