Access to museum collections has become an important part of my current postdoctoral research. These opportunities to see "behind the scenes" at some of the world's premiere institutions is always an amazing opportunity!
Drilling deer teeth at SMU.
Shuler Museum at SMU.
Yale Peabody Mammalogy Collection.
Florida Museum of Natural History coming soon!
During my graduate field work in Peru, I collected surface water samples and modern carbonate lake sediments in order to calibrate our new isotope tools (clumped isotopes and triple oxygen isotopes) to the modern system. This modern analog work was an important step in developing strong paleoclimate interpretations of the Lake Junin core.
As a graduate student instructor (GSI) at the University of Michigan, I taught for two summers (2021, 2022) at the Camp Davis Field Station in western Wyoming. Earth 450, Ecosystem Science in the Rockie Mountains, is such a blast and Wyoming is a great place to teach students about surficial processes, mountain uplift, hydrology, and ecosystem succession!
I hope to teach more field classes in the future!
Rendezvous peak in the Teton Village
Rainbows over Camp Davis
Talus in Tetons National Park
A short visit from my family as my sister moved to WA!