Geologic carbon storage is a promising approach for reducing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations and supporting the transition to a sustainable climate future. My research experimentally examines CO₂-driven carbonate dissolution and metal mobilization in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, across both short and long timescales.

The geochemistry of tephra from late Miocene fossil sites in southern Kenya

The Southern Kenya Rift Project (SKRP) studies the Lemudong’o Formation to interpret the paleoenvironmental context in which humans diverged from apes during the late Miocene in southern Kenya. Despite the abundance of volcanic material around SKRP sites, there is a lack of geochemical studies. My senior thesis research quanitifed the geochemical fingerprint of glass from tephra layers collected in the Lemudong’o Formation and assessed potential local tephra correlations to strengthen our geological understanding of the area.