My research focuses on illuminating the processes and interactions that shape and record patterns of biodiversity. My team and I investigate modern ecology paleoecology, and paleoenvironmental questions using biogeochemical data, geospatial data, and the fossil record. Recent work used stable isotopes to investigate food resource partition by small mammals in response to environmental change today and over the last 4 million years in the Great Plains.

I teach courses across disciplines (biology, geology, environmental science) in the Biology Department and the Plant and Earth Science Department. 
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