deposition and diagenesis of organic rich rocks, physical chemistry of natural low temperature aqueous systems, environmental geochemistry, clastic sedimentation and sedimentary petrology

• The New Albany Shale gas play in Southern Indiana
• Water-quality characteristics and contaminants in the rural karst-dominated Spring Mill Lake watershed, southern Indiana
• Water quality characteristics and contaminants in the rural karst-dominated Spring Mill Lake watershed, southern Indiana
• Gauging success of coal-combustion byproducts utilization in Indiana abandoned mine land reclamation
• Overpressuring and fracturing of New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin--insights from automated information theory and basin simulation