I specialize in optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating and its application to sedimentary systems, particularly of rivers, coasts, and deltas. I have ongoing research in the shrinking Mississippi Delta of the USA, the immense Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta of Bangladesh, and the alluvial valleys of arid northern coastal Peru. In these places, I test how river channel networks evolved over the Holocene in response to changes in sea-level, sediment supply, and human influence. Such millennial-timescale records are needed to understand natural dynamics of sedimentary systems and to pinpoint the (unintentional) consequences of engineering strategies, thereby guiding and inspiring landscape management for the 21st century. 

Stratigraphic controls on subsidence in the Mississippi Delta (https://www.wur.nl/en/project/Subsurface-stratigraphic-controls-in-the-Mississippi-Delta-.htm)

Channel network evolution in a tectonically active basin (Bangladesh) (https://www.wur.nl/en/project/Channel-network-evolution-in-a-tectonically-active-basin.htm)

Coastal and fluvial geoarchaeology in Peru (https://www.wur.nl/en/project/Impacts-of-human-natural-system-on-fluvial-and-coastal-landscape-dynamics.htm)

U.S. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (Columbia University & Vanderbilt University, 2018-2021)

Ph.D. Earth and Environmental Sciences (Tulane University, 2017)

M.Sci. Geology (Louisiana State University, 2012)

BA English - Creative Writing; BA Liberal Arts - Studio Art; B.Sci. Animal Science (Louisiana State University, 2007)