Q: What’s your
research?
A: Before its
demise, I used to profess expertise in the general field of carbonate geology;
often focused on making light of folk who worshiped at the church of our mother
of divine parasequence. More recent efforts are directed toward subjects that
are a bit more quantitative in flavor; my last paper was on trying to
understand the “Sadler Effect” when pretending that rainfall is meteoric
sediment. Today I finished up my input on using multidimensional scaling to
understand differences among ages of zircons in terrigenous samples, and am
working on a paper trying to derive intra-annual growth rates of clams from
stable isotope profiles.
Q: Where is
your favorite field area (and why)?
A: There are a
bunch (yes, I go to the field; at least I used to). I guess if I had to choose,
it would be the Miocene-Pliocene lake deposits along the southwestern margin of
the Snake River plain. Thick and
extensive lake-margin oolite and algal bioherms; hard to beat.
Q: What do you
enjoy about serving as JSR AE?
A: The demise
of carbonate geology (it’s the reason Rankey has time to write a JSR blog);
that “death” means much less work (I am damn near unemployed as a “carbonate
AE” for the Journal.
Q: What was
your favorite JSR paper from “back in the day” (or a recent year)?
A: I guess it
would be Bob Folk’s “The natural historyof crystalline calcium carbonate; effect of magnesium content and salinity”;
the man rather invented the field of carbonate geology.
Q: What are
your hobbies?
A: We live on
this 50-acre hobby farm in upstate New York; horses, goats, cats, turkeys,
guinea fowl, pea fowl, chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons; love my John Deere
tractor.
Q: What’s on
your favorite Pandora station?
A: I spend a
few bucks on Spotify; I clamp on those Sony noise-canceling headphones, and try
and do science to the likes of Tompall and the Glaser brothers, Justin Townes
Earl, the Gourds, and Mason Porter.
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