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I started down the road to becoming a geoscientist in my first week on the Caltech campus as an undergraduate.  I was interested in physics, but wasn't sure what kind I would eventually want to become.  I had the opportunity to tour the geoscience labs and found our that it was possible to do physics outdoors!  At that point I decided on a major in geophysics, which I graduated in 2001.

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After graduating, I entered the Masters and PhD program at the University of Utah, where I started studying magnetotellurics with Phil Wannamaker.  Funding was tight at the time and I ended up working with David Chapman in thermal geophysics on thermal isostasy and related issues for both my Masters and PhD, while maintaining some work in MT with Phil.  I graduated with my PhD in 2010.

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I spent time during my PhD as a teaching assistant with the Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE) field program and did some minor consulting work in MT and small-scale geophysical surveys.

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In 2010, I started a Cecil and Ida Green Fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.  I worked as a postdoc with Steve Constable, helping obtain funding to analyze the electrical conductivity of mantle-derived pyroxene.

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In 2013, I started my current position at the University of Adelaide as a lecturer in geophysics.  At present, I teach Geophysics IIIA: Potential Fields, Geophysics IIIB: Electomagnetics and Seismology, and Tectonics III at the undergraduate level.  I am also the Honours Coordinator for Earth Sciences and teach the Data Analysis short course.