Hello, I’m Tony (Anthony) Edgington (he/him), a graduate fellow and Ph.D. student in Earth & Environmental Science at Boston College.

I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with bachelor’s degrees in Geological Sciences and Geosystems Engineering & Hydrogeology. In 2023, I graduated with an M.S. in Geological Sciences from University of Connecticut. At UConn, I held TA, RA, and instructing appointments and was awarded a Crandall Fellowship. Currently, I hold an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2022-2027).

For my master’s research, I worked in Dr. Julie Fosdick’s BAHTL group, investigating tectonic and sedimentological problems using low-temperature geo- and thermochronological techniques. Additionally, I’m working to publish my undergraduate thesis project which was supervised at UT-Austin by then-PhD candidate Dr. Kristina Butler and Dr. Brian Horton. My research investigated the stratigraphic architecture and provenance of the Cerro Barcino Formation, Patagonian broken foreland basin in southern Argentina. I conducted my field research in January 2019 & 2020 and I’m now finalizing my first-author manuscript for submission.

For my doctoral studies and beyond, I’m interested in assessing environmental, climatic, and anthropogenic controls on fluvial and coastal systems and landforms – spanning headwaters to coastal margins and Pleistocene to present-day. I’m motivated to transition from tectonostratigraphy to geomorphology to more directly connect my interest in sedimentary systems with pressing societal problems of land use, coastal resilience, erosion, natural disasters, and availability of earth materials.

I aspire to a career in higher education, academia, and/or research, incorporating mentorship and other efforts to broaden participation in STEM, particularly for the LGBTQIA+ community.