RESEARCH INTERESTS
-Subduction Zone Megathrust Earthquakes; constraints to seismogenic zone; thermal regime
-N. Cascadia subduction zone structure, offshore and onshore
-Marine Gas Hydrates; Subduction Zone Accretionary Prisms
-Puget-Georgia Basin Structure, Seismicity and Geodynamics
-Queen Charlotte Margin Current Tectonics and Seismicity
-Modern Cordilleran Tectonics, Geodynamics
-Lithosphere thermal regime
-Active Continental Margin Process, Earthquakes, and Tectonics of the Canadian Cordillera
-Cascadia subduction zone large scale structure off Vancouver Island, integration of offshore and onshore (Lithoprobe) geological and geophysical data
-Accretionary sedimentary prism structure and processes; structure from multichannel seismic data, thermal regime, consolidation and fluid expulsion
-Gas hydrates beneath the continental slope (in accretionary prism); vertical distribution and horizontal extent from seismic reflection data, Ocean Drilling Program drilling, thermal constraints, formation processes
-Cenozoic tectonic history of the Queen Charlotte margin; relation of mid‑Tertiary extensional basin formation and associated volcanic, and Pliocene‑Recent shortening, to plate interactions along the margin
-Thermal controls to tectonic style and other geological and geophysical characteristics in the Canadian Cordillera; the edge of the craton
-Interpretation of multichannel seismic, magnetotelluric and thermal data for the deep continental crust; fluids in the lower crust
-Laboratory measurements of the physical properties of oceanic crustal and sedimentary rocks, including under high pressure and temperature