Welcome! I am a geochemist who reconstructs terrestrial environments of the Quaternary (the last ~3 million years). I am particularly interested in how we can improve traditional geologic archives and develop new techniques to acquire more complete information about ancient hydrologic and ecosystem processes.

I am currently a postdoc working in Bronwen Konecky’s lab at Washington University in St. Louis (the Climate and Paleoclimate Laboratory). I have jumped into the world of triple oxygen isotopes and am working on understanding this system’s responses to modern hydrologic processes in Uganda and North America.
 
This builds on my recent work on triple oxygen isotopes in speleothem paleoclimatology. With the help of my wonderful collaborators, I have successfully demonstrated key aspects of a framework that should guide the community's development and use of this exciting new approach. See the Research pages below for to learn more about this project and about my work reconstructing ancient soil and lake environments.

triple oxygen isotopes in speleothems

A new way to constrain hydrologic processes

laminated soil carbonate rinds

Building on a traditional paleoclimate archive to acquire novel information about ancient critical zone processes

Holocene climate from Tibetan lakes

Reconstructing ancient hydrologic processes on the roof of the world