I love doing field work. It combines my joy in being in the outdoors, with my fascination for understanding how nature works. Over the past decade, I've undertaken many field trips (see photos of several of these below). Some personal highlights have been: visiting the oldest convincing evidence for life on Earth (in the form of stromatolites at the Buick Locality, Western Australia); hiking to the Cretaceous-Paleogene "K-T" boundary in Mead Stream on the South Island of New Zealand; visiting dinosaur tracks and exquisitely-preserved microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) at the Dinosaur Ridge locality in Denver, Colorado; and, more recently, doing field work on sulfur-cycling microbes inhabiting Frasassi caves, Italy.
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Alpine microbial mats,
Hartz Mountains NP, Tasmania (2021) |
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Neoproterozoic-Cambrian life & environments,
Flinders Ranges, South Australia (2018) |
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'Astrobiology Grand Tour'
Pilbara, Western Australia (2018) |
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Hot springs of the Taupo Volcanic Zone
Astrobiology Australasia Meeting (AAM) field trip, Rotorua, New Zealand (2018) |
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Late Ordovician (~450 Ma) Cliefden Caves Limestone Group
17th International Congress of Speleology field trip, Sydney (2017) |
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Grand Canyon
AbSciCon field trip, Arizona (2017) |
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Stromatolitic speleothems, Nettle Cave
Jenolan Caves, Sydney (2017) |
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'Archean stromatolites & their depositional environments'
35th International Geological Congress field trip, South Africa (2016) |
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'Astrobiology Grand Tour'
Pilbara, Western Australia (2015) |
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Cretaceous–Paleogene ("K-T") boundary (~65 Ma), Mead Hill Formation
Mead Stream, South Island, New Zealand (2015) |
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Cretaceous (~100 Ma) Tapuaenuku Igneous Complex
Mt Tapuae-o-Uenuku, South Island, New Zealand (2015) |
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Permo-Triassic (~250 Ma) Mino Belt
International Biogeoscience Conference field trip, Japan (2013) 
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