A Bit About Me

Hello! I am a fifth year PhD candidate in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Riverside working in the Lyons Biogeochemistry Group. While at UCR, I have been awarded the Schlanger Fellowship and the UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship. I completed my undergraduate degree at Oklahoma State University (OSU) working on microbially mediated trace metal cycling in marine sediments in the Riedinger Lab. At OSU I was a Niblack Research Scholar, a Wentz Research Scholar, and the College of Arts and Sciences Orange Gown. 

Several of the topics I am currently interested in include: modern marine iron, sulfur, and carbon cycling, subsurface fluid flow, the impact of trace metal cycling during diagenesis on the in situ microbial community and overlying benthic communities, and the role of marine silicate weathering in the Earth's carbon cycle.

In my free time you can find me hitting the biking trails, rock climbing, reading my latest fantasy book (or re-reading my favorites), or trying a new recipe in the kitchen!