Received Ph.D Summer 2023, University of Florida
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Florida
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Elardo
Dissertation Title: Petrogenesis of the 8 Degrees 20 Minutes N Seamount Chain: Modeling Mantle Heterogeneity and Melting in the Near-Ridge Environment
Major Advisor: Dr. Michael Perfit
Received Ph.D Fall 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Dissertation Title: Mangrove Encroachment of Salt Marshes in Apalachicola Estuary: Impacts on Organic Carbon Burial
Current Position: Lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Received Ph.D Summer 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Stephen Elardo
Dissertation Title: The Petrology of the Lunar Interior and Its Early Magmatism Addressed through a Modeling, Analytical, and Experimental Approach
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich
Received MS Summer 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
Thesis Title: Carbon Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Herbivore Teeth from a 10 Million-Year-Time Span, Including the mid Miocene Climatic Optimum, Florida
Current Position: Part Time Faculty at Highline College
Received Ph.D Spring 2023
Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
Dissertation Title: Extensional Tectonics and 3D Development of the Pioneer Metamorphic Core Complex, Idaho
Current Position: CRESST II Postdoctoral Research Associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Received Ph.D Summer 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
Dissertation Title: The Production, Composition, and Stability of Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter
Current Position: Licensed Professional Geologist (TX) and Consulting Geologist at EIL, LLC
Received Ph.D Fall 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Courtney Sprain
Dissertation Title: Earth's Evolution from Core to Atmosphere: Paleomagnetic and Geochronologic Insights from the Indian Subcontinent
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Purdue University
Received Ph.D Summer 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Amy Williams
Dissertation Title: Predicting the Mixed Signal of Organics on Mars: Ancient Biotic, Meteoritic Abiotic, or UV-Altered Meteoritic?
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Received Ph.D Spring 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
Dissertation Title: Ice Sheet Histories and Sea-Level Change during the Last Interglacial and Termination I Inferred from Fossil Corals: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Current Position: Research Scientist at New York State Dept of Health
Received Ph.D Spring 2022
Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
Dissertation Title: Assessing Storm-Driven Evolution of Coastal Morphology through the Use and Development of Numerous Observational Techniques
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at Oregon State University
Received Ph.D Fall 2025
Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
Dissertation Title: Deciphering Crustal Evolution through Mafic Volcanic Rocks: A Multi-Method Approach Using In-Situ Analysis, Elemental and Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Universidade Federal do Pará
Received MS Summer 2025
Major Advisor: Dr. Amy Williams
Thesis Title: Characterizing Biological/Metabolic By-Products of Arabidopsis Thaliana Growth in Lunar Regolith
Current Position: Ph.D. Student at the University of Florida
Received Ph.D Fall 2021, University of Florida
Current Position: Sr. Environmental Specialist for Alachua County, Florida
Dissertation Title: Evaluating Environmental Controls on Nitrous Oxide Processing in Carbonate Aquatic Systems
Major Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Martin
Received MS Summer 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
Thesis Title: Weathering during Glacial-Interglacial Cycles Based on Pb Isotopes at Orphan Knoll, NW Atlantic
Received MS Fall 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
Thesis Title: Investigating the Role of EPS in Microbial-Induced Calcite Precipitation
Current Position: Environmental Planner, City of Gainesville, FL
Received MS Fall 2023
Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Thesis Title: Spatial and Temporal Cycling of Dissolved Organic Matter in South Florida Treatment Wetlands
Current Position: Staff Geologist at Geosyntec Consultants
Received Ph.D Spring 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
Dissertation Title: Quantitative Grain Size Analysis of Water Column and Sub-Seafloor Sediments in Ice-Proximal Environments as Influenced by Glacial Meltwater and Sediment Discharge
Current Position: Community Engagement & Outreach Coordinator at NCEAS
Received MS Summer 2022
Major Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
Thesis Title: Comparative Analyses of Live and Dead Mollusks as a Tool for Assessing Human Impact on Seagrass Ecosystems along the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida
Current Position:
Received Ph.D Spring 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Courtney Sprain
Dissertation Title: A multidisciplinary Approach to Western North American Landscape Evolution and the Associated Hazards
Received Ph.D Spring 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Dissertation Title: Molecular Biomarker Approaches to Determining Organic Matter Sources and Degradation States in High Latitude Permafrost-Affected Soils
Current Position: Staff Scientist At Washington University
Received MS Summer 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
Thesis Title: Determining Crust and Upper Mantle Structure by Bayesian Joint Inversion of Receiver Function, Surface Wave Dispersion and Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity at a Single Station: Preparation for Data from the InSight Mission
Current Position: Ph.D Candidate at the Colorado School of Mines
Received Ph.D Fall 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
Dissertation Title: In-Situ Chemical and Isotopic Analyses of Major and Accessory Mineral Phases: Method Developments and Applications to the Damara Orogen and East Pacific Rise
Current Position: Assistant Faculty Specialist, MAS Early Career Scholar at University of Hawaiʻi
Received Ph.D Fall 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
Dissertation Title: Reusable Geoscientific Software Design and Applications in Coastal Morphology Research and Education
Current Position: Scientific Software Engineer II at Unidata Program Center
Received MS Summer 2021
Major Advisor: Dr. Amy Williams
Thesis Title: Biosignature Preservation Potential in Manganese Oxides
Current Position: PhD Student at University of New Mexico
Received Ph.D Summer 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
Dissertation Title: Investigating Rupture Properties of Large Earthquakes for Seismic Hazard Mitigation
Received MS Fall 2023
Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
Thesis Title: Geochemistry of Fossil Shark Teeth as Age Proxies for Neogene Sites of Florida
Current Position: K-12 Education & Outreach Coordinator at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Ph. D Student at the University of Florida
Received Ph.D Fall 2025
Major Advisor: Dr. Amy Williams
Dissertation Title: Preservation of Organic Biosignatures in Mars-Analog Environments and Detectability with Current and Future Space-Flight Technology.
Received MS Summer 2022
Major Advisor: Dr. Robert Hatfield
Thesis Title: The Particle Size Specific Magnetic Record of IODP Site U1302/03: Fingerprinting Late Pleistocene Laurentide Ice Sheet Instabilities in the North Atlantic Sediment Record
Current Position: Curatorial Specialist at International Ocean Discovery Program
Received Ph.D Summer 2021
Major Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
Dissertation Title: Freshwater Conservation Paleobiology: Understanding the Historical Ecology of Spring-Fed Fluvial Systems in Florida Using Fossil and Modern Mollusks
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College
Received MS Summer 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
Thesis Title: Larger Benthic Foraminiferal Response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in Florida
Current Position:
Received Ph.D Summer 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
Dissertation Title: Pyrogenic Carbon in Soil and Comparison of Quantitative Methods
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Received MS Summer 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
Thesis Title: Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes Provide New Insights on Climate and Paleoecology during the Late Miocene in Northcentral New Mexico
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago
Received MS Spring 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
Thesis Title: Establishing Spatial Patterns of Late Pleistocene to Modern Glacial Erosion in the Bering-Bagley Glacial System, Gulf of Alaska, from IODP Expedition 341 Site U1421
Received Ph.D Fall 2021
Major Advisor: Dr. Joseph Meert
Dissertation Title: Precambrian India from the Hadean to the Proterozoic: Geochemical and Paleomagnetic Investigations of the Singhbhum and Dharwar Cratons
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer at Santa Fe College
Received MS Spring 2023
Major Advisor: Dr. Paul Mueller
Thesis Title: Tracing Archean-Proterozoic Crustal Evolution in Northern Michigan Using U-Pb Age and Hf Isotopic Compositions of Detrital Zircons
Received Ph.D Spring 2025
Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
Dissertation Title: The Thermochemical Hawaiian Plume and Its Dynamic Interplay with the X-Discontinuity: A Novel Computational Approach
Received MS Fall 2023
Major Advisor: Dr. James Vogl
Thesis Title: Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Eocene Pioneer Intrusive Suite: Pioneer Metamorphic Core Complex South-Central Idaho
Received Ph.D Spring 2024
Major Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Martin
Dissertation Title: Carbon Cycling in the Carbonate Critical Zone
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at Florida International University
Received Ph.D Fall 2022
Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
Dissertation Title: Research and Outreach in Idaho's Geology: Timescales and Conditions for Decoupled Crustal Flow in the Pioneer Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, and Impacts of Google-Earth Electronic Field Trips in K-12 Environments
Current Position:
Received Ph.D Spring 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
Dissertation Title: Hydrodynamic Processes Associated with the Evolution of Cape-Related Shoals
Current Position:
Received Ph.D Fall 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
Dissertation Title: The Late Quaternary Continental Margin Sedimentary Record of Glacial Erosion Within the St. Elias Mountain Range, Southeastern Alaska
Current Position: Curator at Gulf Coast Repository at Texas A&M University - International Ocean Discovery Program
Received Ph.D Summer 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
Dissertation Title: Florida's Chondrichthyan Fossil Record (Eocene-Pleistocene)
Current Position: Visiting Professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Received Ph.D Spring 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. Joseph Meert
Dissertation Title: Space and Time: Using Paleomagnetism, Geochronology and Numerical Methods to Create and Assess Spatiotemporal Geological Relationships through Earth History
Current Position: Research Geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey, California Volcano Observatory
Received MS Spring 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. John Jaeger
Thesis Title: Late Pleistocene Sea-Level Change and Reef Response Inferred from Fossil Reefs at Red Bluff, Western Australia
Received Ph.D Summer 2025
Major Advisor: Dr. Anita Marshall
Dissertation Title: Instructor Expectations Vs. Student Readiness: Identifying a Missing Puzzle Piece to Geoscience Student Success
Received MS Spring 2018
Major Advisor: Dr. Ellen Martin
Thesis Title: Development of Northern Component Water during the Latest Cretaceous
Current Position: Assistant Program Director of Data Science at The University of Texas, Arlington
Received MS Summer 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Martin
Thesis Title: Controls on Wetland Phosphorus Distribution in Big Cypress Wetlands, South Florida
Current Position:
Received MS Summer 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Screaton
Thesis Title: Role of Lakebed Sediments in Lake-Groundwater Exchange in Lake Lochloosa, Central Florida
Current Position:
Received MS Summer 2022
Major Advisor: Dr. Michal Kowalewski
Thesis Title: Paleoecology of the Florida Shell and Fill Quarry
Current Position: PhD Candidate at Ohio State University
Received MS Spring 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
Thesis Title: Geologic Mapping and Detrital Zircon U/Pb Geochronology of the Ernie Lake Area of Central Brooks Range in Alaska: Implications for Pre-Mississippian Basement and Brooks Range Architecture
Current Position: Geologist at Bureau of Land Management
Received Ph.D Fall 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Dissertation Title: Changes in Blue Carbon Burial Rates and Vegetation with Macroclimate Variability in Intertidal Wetlands of Northern Florida
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Utah State University
Received Ph.D Spring 2022
Major Advisor: Dr. Raymond Russo
Dissertation Title: Lower Crustal Densities from Converted Seismic Body Waves: Development and Applications
Received Ph.D Spring 2025
Major Advisor: Dr. Thomas Bianchi
Dissertation Title: Organic Carbon Cycling in Temperate Fjord Sediments
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Central Florida
Received Ph.D Summer 2020
Major Advisor: Dr. David Foster
Dissertation Title: Evolution and Exposure of Precambrian Basement along the Western Margin of the Wyoming Province
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Florida
Received Ph.D Fall 2021
Major Advisor: Dr. Peter Adams
Dissertation Title: The Use of Seismic Interferometry to Identify Crustal Velocity Structure and Other Applications in Environmental Seismology
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at NASA Marshal Space Flight Center
Received MS Fall 2019
Major Advisor: Dr. Bruce MacFadden
Thesis Title: Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Montbrook: An Unusual Fossil Locality from the Late Miocene in Northern Florida
Current Position: Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
