My research is currently focussed on the process of continental rifting in eastern Papua New Guinea and in particular the dynamics of the D'Entrecasteaux Island region. I am applying a seismological approach; I am now working on a number of shear wave splitting methods to constrain mantle anisotropy. Eventually I hope to fold these results into a model which explains the rapid exhumation of coesite-eclogite rocks exposed in the cores of the D'Entrecasteaux gneiss domes.