photo taken by Greg Roemer-Baer
I am an isotope geochemist that is interested in developing and applying novel methods to better understand how drought and extreme precipitation are recorded in the terrestrial sphere. In the past, I have worked with cave calcite deposits because caves serve as a lens to view the hydrologic system.
As a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellow, I am interested in using my background in novel methodology to develop a record of carbon fixation vs. photosynthesis to a deposit of preserved Juniper trees from La Brea tarpits.
Additionally, I am actively working with machine learning techniques and large datasets to better understand the record of terrestrial climate change that already exists.
Latest news: Paper out! A record of inclusion-fluid d18O and d2H values is out in QSR! This work explores the impact of changing effective moisture on d18O and d2H as preserved in a stalagmite from the central Sierra Nevada.
New article Alert! We monitored central Texas caves to see if we could pin down the fluctuation in detrital 230Th/232Th, which led to a better understanding of U-series dating in stalagmites from that region.
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