My research foci are:
- Toward completing the Plate Tectonic Revolution: Reconstructing Precambrian Supercontinents.
- Lessons from Venus (and Mars) for magmatic processes on Earth
- Mapping tectono-magmatic features on radar images of Venus
- Global dyke swarm map of Venus
- Global compilations of Large Igneous Province and their plumbing system of dolerite dyke swarms
- Developing and applying Large Igneous Province (LIP) concepts to the Proterozoic and Archean
- Dyke swarm map of Canada (north of 60o) under GSC GEM program (TriT Project) (Buchan and Ernst, 2013, GSC OF 7464)
- National LIP map of Russia (in progress)
- Global LIP map for Earth (for the CGMW: Commission for the Geological Map of the World) (in progress)
- Leading the LIPs Commission of IAVCEI and maintaining the Commission website (www.largeigneousprovinces.org)
- LIPs and resource exploration (ore deposits, and oil/gas)
- Industry Consortium Project: "Multi-Commodity, Multi-Scale Exploration Targeting Using the Large Igneous Province Record". Supporting NSERC grant CRDPJ 523131-17.
- Links between LIPs and dramatic climate change including mass extinctions
- Identifying natural Precambrian boundaries based on the environmental effect of major LIP events
- Lessons for modern climate change
- Evaluating mantle plume and non-plume models for magma generation
- "LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES: MANTLE PLUMES, CLIMATE CHANGE, METALLOGENY AND OIL-GAS, THROUGH EARTH HISTORY" Conference in Tomsk Siberia (2-5 September 2019) http://geoconf.tsu.ru/lip2018/english/
last updated: 2018 July 9
