The Tracks of my Trail

My research focuses on terrestrial ecosystems, combining paleobiology, paleoecology, ichnology, and sedimentology to reconstruct fossil communities and trace evolutionary change across time and space. I work with both exceptionally preserved Lagerstätten and fragmentary fossils, aiming to uncover the biology, behavior, and ecological roles of extinct organisms and their extant descendents.

My approach is interdisciplinary: I draw on multiple fields and integrate established and emerging imaging methods to push the limits of what the fossil record can tell us. My work has taken me from Alaska to Australia, and from billion-year-old rocks to recent history. Wherever the questions lead, across time, space, or method, I follow.

I have a BS in Geology from Tufts University; a MS in Geology from the University of New Hampshire, Durham; a MA in Biology and a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan, and a Research Associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya.