Studying modern climate solutions and past climate change
I am a paleoclimate researcher by training. I also bring my long-term perspective, carbon cycle expertise, and geochemical understandings to climate solutions research, teaching, and collaborations.
Teaching the next generations about Earth’s past and future
The more we know about the earth’s past the better we can understand its potential futures. I find this inspiring and try to impart this on everyone I interact with. In the classroom, I get particularly excited about using students’ goals and inspirations to promote earth science learning. Modern students’ climate inspiration is often the growing suite of potential “climate solutions,” and I bring my first-hand experience with these into the classroom.
What can ocean sediments tell us about past climate?
Ocean sediments are an archive full of known (and unknown) proxies for temperature, salinity, productivity, and many more oceanic conditions related to past climate. I use sediments and fossil plankton to reconstruct ocean and climate conditions in the Western Pacific over the last 2.6 Million years to understand how this region both influences and responds to climate change.
