Expertise

My research is broadly concerned with reconstructing Quaternary climate changes at the highest resolution possible using lake sediment archives. Although my work addresses a range of environmental questions, I am particularly in interested in the intersection between climate change and water resources and the impacts on natural and anthropogenic systems.  My current projects are focused on developing new hydroclimate records from Tibet, tropical South America, and the midwestern US in order to reconstruct the spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of hydrologic variability. Methodologically, I combine field-based and modern process investigations with quantitative down-core multi-proxy analyses that integrate sedimentology, stable isotope and elemental geochemistry, geophysics, and isotope-enabled hydrologic modeling.

Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, School of Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Postdoctoral Fellow, Byrd Polar Research Center, School of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University (past)

Byrd Fellow, Byrd Polar Research Center, School of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University (past)

Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University (past)

Communities
Environmental Science, Geology, Geology
Degrees
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
MS, California State University, Fullerton, 2005
BA, Hamilton College, 1999
Keywords
paleoclimatology paleoceanography hydrology sedimentology