Education
Granted 2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Virginia Tech., Geosciences
Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
Committee: Dr. Fred Read, Dr. Ken Eriksson, Dr. Shuhai Xiao, and Dr. Lindsey R. Leighton
Granted 2007, Master of Science, San Diego State University, Geosciences
Advisor: Dr. Lindsey R. Leighton
Committee: Dr. Stephen Schellenburg, and Dr. Brian T. Hentschell
Positions
2022-present Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Paleontology - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2021-2022 Associate Professor - Miami University of Ohio
2015-2021 Assistant Professor - Miami University of Ohio
2017-2021 Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology - Miami University of Ohio
2014-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor - Colorado College
2012-2014 Post-Doctoral Associate - Florida Museum of Natural History
National Science Foundation Funding
2019-2024 - “CAREER: Identifying Ecosystem Properties Promoting Stability and Resistance: Modeling Late Ordovician Paleocommunity Dynamics and Functioning across the Richmondian Invasion” (PI C.L. Tyler )
2016-2021 - "The Evolutionary Significance of Biotic Interactions: A Comparative Study utilizing Echinoid Associated Traces" (PI's C.L. Tyler and M. Kowalewski)
2016-2021 - "Mesozoic Tethyan Paleocommunity Dynamics: Modeling Complexity and Stability during Times of Biotic Escalation and Community Restructuring" (PI's P.D. Roopnarine and C.L. Tyler)
2011-2014 - "Higher-Taxon Fidelity: Comparative Taphonomy of Marine Benthic Associations in Holocene Depositional Systems of Coastal North Carolina" (PI's M. Kowalewski and C.L. Tyler)
Recent Collaborators
Roxanne Banker, UNLV
Kristina Barclay, University of Alberta
Sandy J. Carlson, University of California at Davis
Troy Dexter, Gerace Research Centre
Ashley Dineen, UC Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
Tobias Grun, Florida Museum of Natural History
Michal Kowalewski, Florida Museum of Natural History
Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta
Steven Mendonca, University of Alberta
Darrin Molinaro, University of Alberta
Liz Petsios, Baylor University
Roger Portell, Florida Museum of Natural History
Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences