“…one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.”
Steve Jobs (2007)
Who I am…
I am a structural geologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. My professional interests are in relations between the earthquake cycle and long term geological deformation, behavior of natural fault and crack populations, fault-related folding, regional tectonics of South America, interpretation of seismic reflection profiles, energy and climate change, and so on. I have carried out field research in Chile, Argentina, and the western United States for the past 45 years. I recently finished my term on the International Advisory Board for the Chilean National Research Center for integrated Disaster Risk Management. Outside of Cornell, I am a former Board Member of the Chocorua Lake Conservancy.
This site primarily provides access to my software for structural geology and teaching materials as Cornell is no longer able to host them, but you’ll also find here some of my favorite photos and info on a part of the New Hampshire White Mountains of which I am particularly fond.