See below for brief snapshots from my CV - which you can download here
Awards
Research Discovery of the Year - Penn State Earth and Mineral Sciences - 2024
Rudy L. Slingerland Early Career Professor of Geoscience, The Pennsylvania State University
NSF-CAREER Award: Is Continental Crust Juvenile or Reworked? A Test of Growth Models Using the Extant Neoarchean Granitoid Record (Sole PI, $903,320) 2022-2027
Hudsonville High School Education Foundation Inductee - Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame - 2024
Carnegie DTM Post-doctoral Fellowship - 2016-2019
Journal of the Geological Society, Young Author of the Year Award - 2016
Foundation Scholarship, Mineralogical Association of Canada (PhD) - 2014
Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award, Geological Association of
Canada and Prospector’s & Developer’s Association of Canada 2015 ($5000)
Hope College Otto Vander Velde All Campus Award - 2009
NCAA D3 All-American, Men’s Basketball, 2009
Hope College Men’s Basketball Team-Elected Captain, 2007-2009
Education:
2011-2015
PhD student, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
Defended with no revisions, October 26, 2015
2010-2011
MSc student, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta:
Upgraded to PhD program prior to completion of MSc
2005-2009
Bachelor of Science; Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA
Geology Major with a Biology Minor
2023-present
Rudy L. Slingerland Early Career Professor of Geoscience, The Pennsylvania State University
2019-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University
2015-2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science