I am a completing a Ph.D. in geoscience at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Dr. Annie Bauer’s Earth Evolution Group.

My research uses geochemistry and computational science to understand the formation and evolution of Earth’s continental crust over billion-year timescales.

Research Interests

Detrital zircon geochemistry - detrital zircons are often the only record of igneous processes during the Hadean and Archean. I use trace element and isotopic geochemistry to reconstruct the initiation of plate tectonics in the Eoarchean.

Computational science and big data - large repositories of geochemical data provide unique opportunities for research into the whole-Earth system. I am working on new methods to reduce sampling bias in these databases, and to constrain crustal composition over Earth’s history and in the present.

Open-source software development (OSSD) - I help develop freely available analysis and visualization methods for geochemical data in the Julia programming language.

Contact

rowan (dot) gregoire (at) wisc (dot) edu