My interest in sedimentary geology have taken me to Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada, Norway and the Great Plains and Gulf Coast of the United States. My experience tells me that important geologic questions remain unanswered even in long-studied classic areas that have already received a great deal of attention. My research is almost equally divided between outcrop studies and subsurface geology. Core, well logs and seismic sections can be shipped to Fort Worth from anywhere in the world. I am currently presently preparing a manuscript on the diagenesis of sandstones from the Upper Permian Schuchert Dal Sandstone in East Greenland.
Many geologic problems are multi-faceted and lend themselves easily to meaningful collaborations.
I like to work closely with my students. Geology is a science in which basic skills like mapping and measuring sections can lead to important new discoveries and re-interpretations. Francis Pettijohn, one of the grand old men of sedimentary geology once remarked that an outcrop is a sobering thing. A core is just a skinny outcrop and well logs are an inexpensive substitute for core, so graduate student can do subsurface as well as surface geology. I subscribe wholeheartedly to this philosophy.