Field, Museum Collections, & Lab Work

Museum collections research has taken me to the Florida Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the UC Museum of Paleontology, and the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, where I have studied fossil horses, sharks, and other mammal specimens central to my dissertation and M.S. thesis research. In the lab, my geochemical work includes column chemistry, ICP-MS, rare earth element (REE) analysis, strontium isotope analysis, and micro-CT scanning.

Fieldwork

North America & Panama

Fieldwork in Nebraska — The Badlands of Nebraska

Fieldwork in New Mexico — Exposing specimen in New Mexico

At the New Mexico site — New Mexico site

The hike to field site — Hike to field site

Fieldwork in California — Santa Cruz, California

Canoe fieldwork — Panama collecting via canoe

Museum Collections

Visiting natural history collections is an essential part of comparative vertebrate research. These visits allow direct measurement and study of type specimens, rare taxa, and historical series that are not otherwise accessible.

UC Museum of Paleontology — University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), Berkeley

Traveling to collections — En route to collections visit

Museum specimen cabinet — Specimen cabinet

American Museum of Natural History — AMNH, New York

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — USNM, Washington D.C.

Lab & Geochemistry

Laboratory work bridges field collections and published findings. Geochemical analyses, including isotope work and elemental characterization, provide independent lines of evidence for reconstructing environments, diets, and biogeographic histories.

Rare earth element analysis — REE analysis

Lab visit — Showcasing lab work to K-12 classroom

Geochemistry work — K-12 visit on geochemistry