Current position
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Watershed Studies Institute
Murray State University, Murray, KY
Education
Ph.D. 2018
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dissertation title: Paleoenvironments and taphonomy of the middle Miocene Barstow Formation, Mojave Desert, California
M.S. 2010
Department of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Thesis title: Taphonomy in blue paleosols from the Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, and its implications for vertebrate biostratigraphy
in the Chinle Formation
B.S. 2006
cum laude, Geology and French
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Honors thesis title: Paleoenvironmental and depositional setting of two dinosaur-bone–bearing quarries in the Morrison Formation
(Upper Jurassic) of Wyoming
Grants
2020
Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship No. 1952643, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA
2013 – 2017
Scott Turner Award, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
2014
Evolving Earth Student Grant, Evolving Earth Foundation, Issaquah, WA
2014
Paleontological Society Student Grant, Paleontological Society
2014
Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
Awards
2017
Ermine Cowles Case Student Award
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
2011
PALAIOS Honorable Mention Paper
