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I am currently a PhD student in the Earth Sciences department at Dartmouth College. Broadly speaking, my interests are in Quaternary paleoclimate; this means that I study climate changes and trends over long time scales, ranging from hundreds of years to hundreds of thousands of years, although I am especially interested in the Holocene period (the most recent 10,000 years). I use multiple approaches to investigate climate of the past, including cosmogenic nuclide dating with both beryllium-10 and aluminum-26, lake sediment cores, and radiocarbon dating of fossilized organic material. Most of my recent work has been in western Greenland, where I focus on past fluctuations in the size of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the position of the ice sheet margin; I primarily address questions regarding the timing, rate, and extent of ice margin retreat after the last ice age. At Dartmouth, I will be working in northwestern Greenland in the Thule region. My dissertation work will investigate Holocene climate changes, and how these climate changes controlled the extent of the main ice sheet and local ice caps. I am particularly interested in periods of warm climate during the Holocene, and if these warm periods caused the ice margin to retreat. Scroll through the tabs above to learn more about my research, teaching, and personal interests.