I began my post-secondary career at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton.  After two years, I transferred to the University of Alberta to continue my Geology degree.  Currently I am in my final semester and plan to graduate with a B.Sc. Honors in Geology. 

I started working with Dr. Murray Gingras in the spring of 2004 as a field assistant to his graduate student, Marilyn Zorn.  We spent the month of June in Willapa, Washington and Tillamook, Oregon studying the organisms on the tidal flats within the estuaries.  This is when I found my love of sedimentology and ichnology.  The following year of studies, I spent working with Murray performing various tasks such as computer data entry, grain size analysis, dating zircons, making this webpage, and any thing else that needed to be done around the office.

The following summer I spent in Calgary working for Burlington Resources supervised by Andy Vogan and Jason Bateman.  Here I learned to apply my academic knowledge to the oil and gas industry working on a mapping project of the “Tight” Viking Fm. of central Alberta.  This work on the Viking turned into an Undergrad Honors thesis where I am currently studying the porosity and permeability relationships in 4 cores.  I will be cutting thin sections and analyzing the rocks using SEM and XRD here at the University.