About Me

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I am a Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science Earth & Planets Laboratory.

I was born and raised in central New Jersey, and growing up I loved reading all the books I could, traveling with my family to dozens of national, state, and provincial parks, and studying every type of science. It was thrilling to me to find out when I started college at Yale that I could combine these passions by studying the geosciences. Not only would I learn to tell stories about our planet, I also would have the privilege to spend dozens of weeks seeing it on fieldwork and field trips around the world. I then pursued a PhD in Geosciences at Princeton University, specializing in high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology by working with Blair Schoene, and becoming an expert on the geochronology of large igneous provinces, Earth’s most extreme magmatic events. I returned to Yale funded by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and I am now a Staff Scientist in Geochemistry at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. I hope you enjoy exploring my website - please reach out with any questions or ideas for collaboration!