Primary interests are in carbonate diagenesis. Past work includes analysis of early fresh-water diagenesis and mineralogical stabilization, mass transfer and cementation in regional fresh-water aquifers, the formation of microporosity in limestones, the origin of dolomite, early compaction and syn-deformation phenomena, the evolution of permeability with burial, self-organizing phenomena in diagenesis, and recrystallization in chalk systems. Secondary interests relate to student affect (motivation, self-regulation, self-efficacy, attitudes) in undergraduate learning, and measuring the extent of student-centered active learning in geoscience classrooms.
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Diagenesis of carbonate rocks, dolomitization, self-organizing phenomena, rock-water interaction, reaction-transport modeling, carbonate sedimentology, porosity and permeability evolution, measuring efficacy of geoscience learning and teaching practices, active learning strategies
