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Graduate Research
Graduate Research
As a graduate student, I am working with Dr. Ellen Currano and studying canopy structure across Wyoming fossil plant sites from the early Eocene hothouse, to better understand forest structure during warm periods of Earth's history.
I am broadly interested in the impact of hothouse climates on plant communities, and how the fossil record can be used to better understand the response of modern plant communites to climate change. If we can understand the response of plant communities during previous periods of change, we can better predict how our forests will change in the future, and manage and protect our natural resources more effectively.
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Research
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, I was a part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, where I worked with a graduate student on a project collecting interaction data for the University of Michigan Biological Station to help develop a terrestrial ecological network.
As a post-baccalaureate researcher, I worked with Dr. Naomi Levin and Dr. Anne Fetrow in the Isotopologue Paleosciences Laboratory at the University of Michigan to build a Holocene lake level record for Walker Lake in Nevada, from literature search and instrumental records. I worked as a technician in IPL, where I ran two IRMS mass spectrometers to analyze triple oxygen and paired clumped isotopes, prepared carbonate and water samples for analysis, and rebuilt vacuum pumps.
Building the fluorination reactor for the IPL 17O prep line
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