I am a Distinguished Professor of Geology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

My research interests include:

• tectonics of oceanic and continental extensional regimes;
• structure and petrology of ophiolites and oceanic crust;
• tectonics and geodynamics of modern and ancient convergent margins ;
• post-collisional tectonics and magmatism of the Eastern Mediterranean;
• regional structure of the Alpine-Himalayan, Caledonian, and North American Cordilleran orogenic belts.

Thesis/dissertation topics for perspective students:

• Structure, petrology, geochemistry and tectonics of Mesozoic-Cenozoic oceanic crust in the Pontide-Black Sea arc-backarc system (involves fieldwork in Turkey and/or the Republic of Georgia).
• Passive margin development, rift-drift tectonics, and sedimentary basin evolution in Eastern Europe and Anatolia (involves fieldwork in Greece, Albania, and/or Turkey).
• Structure, tectonics and geomorphology of the Northern Owens Valley and Evolution of the Great Basin-Sierra Nevada Boundary (involves fieldwork in Eastern California).
• Structure, petrology and tectonics of oceanic crust in arc-trench rollback systems (involves field work in Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran and/or Chile).
• Structure and tectonic geomorphology of transform fault plate boundaries (Dead Sea, East and North Anatolian faults) in the Mediterranean region (involves fieldwork in Turkey).
• Structure, geochronology and tectonics of orogenic vs. anorogenic Cenozoic magmatism (involves fieldwork on Aegean Islands, in western Turkey, Azerbaijan, and/or Iran).
• Structure, sedimentology, and tectonics of mélanges (involves fieldwork in Italy, Greece, and/or Turkey).