Current position
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Assistant Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Watershed Studies Institute
Murray State University, Murray, KY
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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
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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
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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
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Grants
2020
Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship No. 1952643, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA
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2013 – 2017
Scott Turner Award, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
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2014
Evolving Earth Student Grant, Evolving Earth Foundation, Issaquah, WA
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2014
Paleontological Society Student Grant, Paleontological Society
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2014
Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
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Awards
2017
Ermine Cowles Case Student Award
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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2011
PALAIOS Honorable Mention Paper
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