Research

A lake water sample.

Rapid warming in the Great Lakes region

I use lake proxy system models to investigate how different kinds of lakes respond to rapid warming. I conduct field work to collect data from lakes in western New York to calibrate those models. This work will help us determine which lakes we should target for paleoclimate research to reconstruct the water cycle in the past.

Paleofire in northern Norway

I used charcoal and organic compounds (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) preserved in ancient lake sediments to reconstruct fire activity in the Lofoten Islands, Norway. Early human settlements in Lofoten used fire to clear land for agriculture and changed natural patterns of burning. This research helps us better understand relationships among human-activities, climate, and fire.

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View from the microscope: I counted charcoal (dark particles) that I extracted from lake sediment.

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