I am originally from Ireland, I completed a BSc. (Hons) degree in Geoscience (Upper 2nd Class Honors) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland and a Ph.D. in Earth Science at the University of Liverpool, England.

I have previously worked in the hydrocarbon industry in both the UK and Houston, TX. I returned to academia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2017, where my research focused on the outcrop and core characterization of thin-bedded deposits within the sand-prone Ross Sandstone of the Clare Basin, Ireland.

I returned to the U.S. in 2020 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Utah within the Department of Geology and Geophysics, in Salt Lake City, Utah, followed by an Assistant Professor position at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. I am now an Assistant Professor of Sedimentary Geology at University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). My research now focuses on the presence of critical minerals and rare earth elements in coal, the instability of ancient deltas – in both the Cretaceous Ferron Deltas of south-central Utah, salt marsh restoration monitoring, and the beneficial use of dredge material in coastal restoration.

I love travelling, books, knitting, hiking and dogs.