 |
YIBS Donnelly Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-Present |
My research interests fall within the broad areas of paleoceanography, paleoclimate, and paleontology. Most of my work focuses on marine microfossils, how their geochemistry and morphology record and respond to climate and ecosystem change, and what such records can tell us about the influence of climate and marine ecosystems on one another. |
 |
YIBS Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-present |
My research focuses on how fish and marine ecosystems respond to global climate change using the microfossil record. I reconstruct ecosystem dynamics across major upheavals including global warming and mass extinctions events in the last 100 million years. I am interested in how marine ecosystems function and what processes drive their evolution. |
 |
NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellow |
My research uses a stratigraphic approach, combining detailed fieldwork with high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology, geochemical, and paleomagnetic data. During my PhD, I generated the first U-Pb eruptive timeline for the Columbia River Basalt Group and I am currently testing the connection between this volcanism and mid-Miocene climate change in deep sea cores. |
 |
PhD Student, 2020- Present |
I am broadly interested in the roles of ocean circulation and marine biogeochemistry in modulating the global climate system. |
 |
PhD Student 2016-Present |
I’m interested in the silica cycle, as it relates to the evolution of siliceous organisms. I’m also interested in fossil preservation and how it affects our understanding of the fossil record. |
 |
PhD Student 2016-Present |
I am broadly interested in how marine ecosystems respond and adapt to environmental pressures, with a view towards understanding how to best manage modern-day marine ecosystems and natural resources. In particular, I have developed models to integrate our mechanistic understanding of biological and geochemical processes in order to interpret geochemical signals from the past. |
 |
PhD Student 2017-Present |
I work at the intersection of paleoecology and taphonomy. In particular, I’m interested in how community structure has changed across the Phanerozoic through the lens of ecological network analysis. |
Independent study/ Thesis students:
| Sherry Xu | 2019-present | Earth system dependence of exitinction risk |
| Nadia Irwanto | 2020-present | Image recognition and segmentation |
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
| Andrew Coli | 2020-present |
Former Postdoctoral Researchers & Graduate Students:
|
Donald Penman |
2015-2020 | current info & whereabouts |
| Janet Burke | 2014-2019 | current info & whereabouts |
| Wayne Strojie | 2018-2020 | current info & whereabouts |
| Robin Dawson | 2016-2019 | current info & whereabouts |
| Charlotte O’Brien | 2016-2018 | current info & whereabouts |
| James Super | 2016-2018 | current info & whereabouts |
| Leanne Elder | 2013-2019 | current info & whereabouts |
| Michael Henehan | 2014-2017 | current info & whereabouts |
| Shuang Zhang | 2015-2017 | current info & whereabouts |
| Allison Hsiang | 2014-2016 | current info & whereabouts |
| Simon D’haenens | 2014-2016 | current info & whereabouts |
| David Evans | 2015-2016 | current info & whereabouts |
| Luke Strotz | 2016 | current info & whereabouts |
Former Interns & Independent Study Students:
|
Madison Shankle (2014-2019; mix of research support & independent study; capstone project: pH gradients in Eq. Pacific during El Padre); Mahima Kumera (Summer Independent Research 2017: MECO temperature evolution), Jack Shaw (Independent Research 2016-2017: PETM stable isotopes), Romy Carpenter (Research 2016: Long Island Sound Invert. Physiology), Casey Culligan (Independent Research [high schooler] 2015-2016: Planktonic foraminiferal shape evolution), Chris Bowman (Research & Thesis Student 2015-2016: Isotopic sensitivity of Eocene foraminifera), Paige Breen (Research & Thesis Student 2014-2016: Middle Eocene isotopic community structure), Sara Kahanamoku-Snelling (STARS II Fellow & Thesis Student 2014-2016: Macroecology of foraminifera and limpets), Rain Tsong (Research & Thesis Student 2014-2016: Middle Eocene paleoceanography & Li Isotopes), Megan Mikenas (Summer Intern & Independent Study 2014-2015: Ecological response to the K-Pg), Volkan Özen (Summer Intern 2014: Boron isotopes across the K-Pg), Yusu Liu (Independent Study 2013-2014: Bioinformatics of shape), Liana Epstein (Thesis Student 2013-2014: Geochemistry of the K-Pg), Samantha Lichtin (Independent Study 2013-2014: High throughput shape), Frances (Yuchen) Lui (Independent Study 2013-2014: Atlantic foraminifera) |
Former Undergraduate Research Assistants:
|
Brian Chang (2019-2020), Francine Rois-Fetchkno (2016-2017), Christiana Hart (2016-2017), Than Minh Tran (2014-2017), Molly Mullen (2013-2016), Emma Tipton (2013-2016), Corrin Laposki (2014-2016), Rachelle Graham (2014-2016), Rebecca Dendy (2013-2015), Joanne Zhenheng Li (2013-2015), Saad Syed (2014-2016), Sergio Lopez-Valdez (2015), Katherine Bradley (2014), Kevin Ennis (2014), Jason Entgelmeier (2014), Ivy Nyayieka (2014), Susan Rundell (2014), Adam Sokol (2014), Nicholas Shintaro Ten (2014), Sophia Kecskes (2013-2014), Yumi Koga (2013-2014), Emma Speer (2013-2014), Juan Aragon (2013), Sofia Carrera (2013), Shalila de Bourmont (2013), Mina Himwich (2013), XinXin Xu (2013), Sarah Gilbert (2012-2013) |
Former High School Students & Evolutions Students & Mentors:
|
High School Interns: Corrine Evans (2019), Casey Culligan (2015-2016) Evolutions 2017: Carina Andrea, Kyndall Hailey Evolutions 2016: Gabriela Villanueva, Aaliyah Shabazz Evolutions 2015: Ahmad Keita, Janae McMillan, Juhi Nath, Diego Ospina Evolutions 2014: Zariah Altman, George Baldwin, Meeshali Patel, Sywia Zambrycka Evolutions 2013: Jenna LaFontaine, Kurt LoPresto, Amanda Plaza Evolutions Undergraduate Mentors: Matt Ormrod (2013-2014), Jennifer Messervy (2015), Georgienna Driver (2016) |