News & Updates

You'll find some brief articles about my research and hobby projects on the page.

A Spilhaus-like projection for the oceans

Most map projections emphasize the continents since the oceans are considered unimportant. No really, I've actually seen a cartographer...

Cassini Projection

The Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini-Soldner) projection dates to 1745 by César-François Cassini de Thury. It is an equidistant cylindrical...

Orogenies

The process of mountain building has shaped the continents for at least two billion years. Our paper on "New models of global geological...

Release of New Plate and Tectonic Provinces Data

Tectonic plates and geological provinces There may be a few icy bodies that also experience some form of tectonics, but Earth is unique...

Timber & Tectonics: Open for business

It's official! I opened a store on Etsy to sell copies of my plate tectonics map. The map is awesome. It includes a new model of plate...

Waterman Butterfly

The Waterman Butterfly is one of the finest map representations ever produced, but it is uncommon. It is aesthetically beautiful and has...

The mysterious disappearance of eclogites

Between 1.7 and 1.1 billion years ago, cold, subduction-related eclogites disappeared from the rock record, but why? In a recent study...

Can Rocks Melt Ice Sheets?

Getting out of bed on a cold winter morning is always a dreadful activity, but I'm much happier to be stepping on the rug beside my bed...

Global Geochemistry: A new database

We have developed a global geochemical compilation of major and trace element compositions that is twice as large as existing datasets...