Dissertation topic: An evaluation of competing models for extension across the Death Valley region, California-Nevada. NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Ph.D. expected, 2009.
Dissertation topic: Antarctic snow drift processes (Research Advisor, B. Tremblay). Ph.D. expected, 2009.
Dissertation topic: Non-eustatic controls on sedimentation in the late Cretaceous foreland of western Colorado and in salt-withdrawal intraslope minibasins, offshore Louisiana. Ph.D. expected, 2009.
Dissertation topic: Patterns of crustal extension in southern Nevada. Ph.D. expected, 2011.
Dissertation topic: Structural and neotectonic evolution of Calabria, southern Italy (Research Advisor, M.S. Steckler). Ph.D. expected, 2012.