Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 E Saint Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

• Master of Science, Marine Geology and Geochemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994

• Bachelor of Science, Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 1992

• Cenozoic paleobotany, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography.
• The relationship between plants, soils, and climate, and how that can be used to determine terrestrial paleoclimate.
• The relationship between climate change and uplift, and how plants can be used to document paleoelevation change.
• Distribution of variability in plant leaf morphology due to climate and phylogeny.

• E. C. Ermine Cowles Case Student Award For Outstanding Scholarship and Attainment in Research, awarded annually by the Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences (1999).
• Paleontological Society Grant-in-aid (1999).
• University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Funds Award (1999).
• Scott Turner Award in Earth Sciences from the University of Michigan Department of Geological Sciences (1997, 1999).
• Summer Preliminary Field Research Grant from Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan (1997).
• University of Michigan Rackham Travel Grant (1993, 1998, 1999).

• GS 150: Dinosaur Extinction and Other Controversies. Freshman seminar course.

Florida Museum of Natural History – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2001-2002)

• NSF funded project comparing modern leaf morphology and wood anatomy with climate parameters. Involves sampling leaves and wood from modern forests, statistical tests of the resultant data and predictive equation formation.

• GS 120: Geology of National Parks (1993). Two laboratory sessions per week. Created and graded weekly quizzes and laboratory exercises, and lectured for 30 minutes at the start of each session.
• GS 125: Evolution and Extinction (1996). Led three discussion sections per week, graded and created weekly quizzes, and led review sessions.
• GS 411: Geology of Michigan (1997). Graded weekly homework exercises and held office hours to explain course material (office hours were well attended).
• GS 440: Field Geology for Geology Majors (1998, 1999). A small class that teaches field techniques to geology majors. I helped to demonstrate field geology techniques, including stratigraphic and structural mapping, field recognition of formations, structure, and depositional environment, and stream flow and velocity calculation. Also, I graded exams, field and laboratory exercises.

• GS 145: Introduction to Physical Geology (1991). Responsible for laboratory set-up, grading and class assistance.

• Responsible for preparation, cleaning and curation of fossil plant specimens, and for cataloguing and curation of modern botanical specimens (stems, fruits and seeds). In addition, I have performed grain size, carbonate and organic carbon analysis (CHN analysis) of sediment samples.

• Assisted with ongoing projects, data entry and organization of laboratory space.

• Analyzed sediment samples from Lake Malawi and DSDP cores using paleomagnetic techniques.

• Responsible for coordinating and overseeing several undergraduates in the marine geology laboratory for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, teaching carbon bomb and CHN analyzer techniques and data interpretation.

• Pliocene paleobotany and stratigraphy of the San Isidro Formation, Bolivia (2001).

• Eocene paleobotany and vertebrate paleontology of Mahenge, Tanzania (2000).

• Miocene paleobotany and stratigraphy of the Nabón Basin, Ecuador (1997, 1999).

• Miocene paleobotany of the Nabón, Loja and Cuenca Basins, Ecuador (1997, 1998).

• Eocene vertebrate paleontology of the Green River Basin, Wyoming (1995).

• El Museo de Historia Natural "Noel Kempff Mercado", Santa Cruz, Bolivia, (2001)
• The University of Florida, Ecology Series (2001)
• Albion College, Introduction to Earth History Class (2000)