In January 2025, we traveled to the Canary Islands for a brand new type of fieldwork (for me, anyway). PhD student Jadie Sauerbier, under supervision of Lydian Boschman and me, and our friend Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, aims to find an efficient … Continue reading →
In November 2023, I joined a geological sampling expedition to the Grenadines Islands, which in part belong to the country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and in part to Grenada, both in the Lesser Antilles islands of the eastern … Continue reading →
In March 2022, we conducted a fieldwork at the islands of San Benedicto and Socorro, two volcanoes of the Revillagigedo Archipelago that is located ~500 km west of the Mexian mainland. These are active volcanoes that have formed since the … Continue reading →
In November 2021, I had the great pleasure of going to the amazing British Virgin Islands with my French friends Leny Montheil (PhD student at the University of Montpellier, under my co-supervision), Mélody Philippon (University of the Antilles, Guadeloupe) and … Continue reading →
In June 2021, our entire team and a few friends from other universities celebrated our first field trip since the start of the Covid ’19 pandemic – a fantastic experience after 15 months of lockdowns. We took two paleomagnetic sampling … Continue reading →
In February 2020 I joined French PhD student Leny Montheil (University of Montpellier) and friends Jean-Jacques Cornée and Mélody Philippon (University of Guadeloupe) on a paleomagnetic sampling campaign to Sint Maarten and Anguilla in the NE Lesser Antilles. Aim of … Continue reading →
In December 2019, we performed a paleomagnetic sampling campaign in the Coast Range ophiolites of the Bay area of California. Prime target was the Mt Diablo ophiolite, where we sampled sheeted dykes and pillow lavas to reconstruct a paleo-spreading direction … Continue reading →
In September 2019, we conducted a paleomagnetic, stratigraphic, sedimentological, and geochemical sampling campaign in Sabah (Northern Borneo) Malaysia in context of the PhD project of Suzanna van de Lagemaat. The target was a section of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy (OPS) exposed … Continue reading →
In January and February 2018, I conducted a fieldwork in the NE Caribbean region, on the islands of St. Barthélémy and La Désirade. The St Barth trip focused on vertical axis rotations measured through paleomagnetic research in context of the … Continue reading →
In November 2017, I conducted a fieldwork in Northern Cyprus with Pete McPhee, to reconstruct the shortening history associated with Africa-Europe collision in the Eastern Mediterranean region. We spent a week working on the fold-thrust belt that includes the narrow, … Continue reading →