Earth’s climate is warming at a pace and magnitude unprecedented in recent times, with profound consequences for terrestrial ecology and hydrology. My research aims to contribute to our understanding of future global change by examining Cenozoic changes in climate, ecology, and the carbon cycle. Fossil chemical signatures—biomarkers—and their carbon isotope ratios integrate and track the ancient carbon cycle and provide unique paleoecological information in sediments where other proxies are not often preserved. The combination of biomarkers and carbon isotopes provides new insights into the feedbacks between global change, terrestrial ecology, and the carbon cycle.
My research group is interested in biogeochemistry, global climate change, organic geochemistry, stable isotope biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, stable isotope ecology, and limnology.
My research group is interested in biogeochemistry, global climate change, organic geochemistry, stable isotope biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, stable isotope ecology, and limnology.