Experience

Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  PhD candidate in Geobiology working with Alex Sessions and Woody Fischer. Developing a method for position-specific carbon isotope analysis of glucose derived from tree ring cellulose. Quantifying the impact of climate and land use on aerobic methanotrophy fluxes and kinetics in soils. PhD candidate in Geobiology working with Alex Sessions and Woody Fischer. Developing a method for position-specific carbon isotope analysis of glucose derived from tree ring cellulose. Quantifying the impact of climate and land use on aerobic methanotrophy fluxes and kinetics in soils.



Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Laboratory Technician

  • Nov 2018 - Aug 2019

  Assisting with several ongoing projects in the Osburn Lab, including the extraction and analysis of sedimentary lipids from Mars-analog hypersaline lakes. Participating in a field campaign in Central British Columbia. Helping manage lab organization and instrument repairs and training personnel.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Mar 2016 - Aug 2019

  Analyzing Greenland lake sediments and modern plants to understand the sources and signals recorded by plant wax biomarkers and their isotopic composition.



University of Otago

• New Zealand
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jul 2018 - Nov 2018

  Examining diatom assemblages in a late Holocene sediment core from the Ross Sea, Antarctica to assess changes in ecology and climate. Examining diatom assemblages in a late Holocene sediment core from the Ross Sea, Antarctica to assess changes in ecology and climate.



University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

  Optimizing population genetics techniques to improve understanding of white-nose syndrome and its effects in two at-risk North American bat species. Optimizing population genetics techniques to improve understanding of white-nose syndrome and its effects in two at-risk North American bat species.



University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Sep 2015

  Expressing and purifying novel proteins associated with gliding motility in Flavobacterium johnsoniae. Expressing and purifying novel proteins associated with gliding motility in Flavobacterium johnsoniae.