I am a paleoecologist interested in changes to mammal ecologies over the last ~50,000 years. I am also a conservation paleobiologist, which means I use paleontological methods and data to establish historical references for understanding and managing modern animal populations and their communities. I am on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati, where I an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology. Explore this site to learn more about me and what I do. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Research Interests

My research uses sub-fossil and fossil bone accumulations to quantify the biological, environmental, and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change. My research motivations are to quantify ecological processes that occur across extended timescales and establish new tools and analytical frameworks that expand the observation window we use to study modern populations. The brief temporal perspectives provided by most ecological datasets (years to decades) impose limitations on how we understand population dynamics and interactions among species and their ecosystems. Sub-fossil and fossil records offer unique insights and enable historically informed assessments of the mode and intensity of recent climatic and anthropogenic perturbations on animal populations.