Robert Perrin is a postdoctoral researcher in geophysics at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on crustal hydrogeology in the oceanic crust, where he combines numerical simulation, potential field methods, borehole geophysical analysis, and heat flow observations to characterize fluid pathways through fractured basement rock. He investigates how permeability structure and thermal-hydrologic circulation govern fluid exchange between the crust and the ocean, and how these flow systems help to support the chemical conditions that sustain chemosynthetic biological communities at and below the seafloor. His work also examines how crustal deformation along oceanic faults creates and maintains the fracture networks that serve as fluid flow pathways.
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