Get in touch at: cat.ross238[at]gmail.com

I am currently an NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Colorado Boulder. I am broadly interested in punctuated events in Earth’s history using field observations, geo/thermochronology, microstructural analysis, and geochemistry. I find it fascinating how rapid deformation and sedimentation (that occurs in seconds - days) are expressed in the rock record. 

I just finished a postdoctoral fellowship at UW Madison, where I conducted research into the timing of hydrothermal silica cements on faults within the Rio Grande Rift. We hope to better understand the temporal evolution of fault zones and fluids. 

I got my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. I worked on the impact crater geo- and thermo-chronology of the Chicxulub and Ries impact craters. We then traced these ejected materials to proximal K-Pg boundaries.