People
I have been an Assistant Professor at OU since Jan 2023. Before that I was a postdoc at Arizona LaserChron (2019-2022) and a PhD student at University of Texas at Austin (2014-2019). I am fascinated by tectonic processes and use the sedimentary record, geochronology, and geochemistry to address a variety of questions.
Sarah WM George
Natalie is a new post-doc at OU. She did her PhD at Utah State University. Natalie is interested in the complex geologic controls that shape topography. Her research utilizes geochronology, field geology, and topographic analyses to gain insight into how geomorphic makers and their sedimentary archives can be used to reconstruct landscape evolution dynamics.
Assistant Professor. She/Her.
Postdoc. She/Her.
Natalie Tanksi
Boyd is a second year MS student. They did their BS at UArizona where they field assisted in the Canadian Rockies in summer 2022. Now, they are working on constraining the timing of shortening in the Canadian Rockies using low temperature thermochronology.
Boyd
Cassie is a second year MS student. She did her undergraduate degree at ISU where she got to field assist for a graduate student in the Peruvian Andes. Now she's working on the tectonic evolution of the Colombian Andes using a long-lived sedimentary archive in the Middle Magdalena Valley.
MS student. They/Them.
MS student. She/Her.
Cassie Kenyon
Brigid is a second year MS student. She did her BS at UConn where she learned about low temperature thermochronology applied to orogenic systems. Currently, Brigid is working on sediment routing and fold-thrust belt/foreland basin coupling in the Alberta foreland basin.
Brigid Bernier
Maria is a first year PhD student. She did her MS at Idaho State University and is currently working on pulses of deformation in the Colombian Andes.
MS student. She/Her.
PhD student. She/Her.
Maria Reinoso
Piper is a Senior. She is interested in geochemistry and tectonics and is working on applying trace element geochemistry to detrital minerals from Colombia.
Piper Jostrand
Braeden is a Senior at OU. He's been helping us get our min-sep facilities up and running. Starting this fall, Braeden will be working on using geochemical techniques to determine just what happens when oceanic ridges subduct.
Undergraduate. She/her.
Undergraduate researcher. He/Him.
Braeden Moreland
Alexis is a senior at OU with broad interests in tectonics. She's currently working on an amazing set of paleosols from Colombia.
Alexis Griner
Undergraduate researcher. She/her.
Ally is a junior at OU. She is interested in sedimentary rocks and paleopedology. She is currently processing some carbonate nodules for stable isotope work.
Undergraduate researcher. She/her.
Ally Stitt
Former Group Members
Will McCraine (now at U Arizona for MS)