Title: Graduate Student

Group: The Griffin Lab

Area(s): Geology, Paleoclimate

Research Summary: I am a Ph.D. student at in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University in the Griffin Lab. Before coming to Princeton, I earned my B.S. in Earth Sciences from Montana State and my M.S. in Geosciences from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I am interested in understanding major evolutionary trends and transitions, with a primary focus on Mesozoic birds and non-avian dinosaurs. My research includes work on bird evolution and paleobiology, evolutionary developmental biology, and dinosaur and mammal body size evolution. Throughout my career, I have put an emphasis on fieldwork, and have collected fossils in the badlands of Montana, the backcountry of Denali National Park, and the remote polar wilderness of Alaska’s North Slope. 

Keywords: Vertebrate paleontology, developmental biology, evolution