My earth science origin story began growing up in south Louisiana where in the early 2000s it seemed like we had a brush with a major hurricane every year. It was Katrina in 2005 though that cemented my interests in everything climate, and I have been continuously on the climate path since.

During undergrad at LSU I found out about the field of “paleotempestology” and sought to reconstruct Louisiana hurricane landfalls over the past 500 years using storm surge deposits. This got me hooked on paleoclimate! In my graduate studies at Columbia, I expanded my timescale of focus from the common era to the Pleistocene and both deepened and shared my grasp of additional geochemical proxies - focusing on temperature, nutrients, salinity, and other upper ocean conditions in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool.

Since finishing my Ph.D. I have remained connected to the paleoclimate world while also exploring the burgeoning “climate solutions” sector - specifically carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Long-term, big-picture, geochemical thinking from earth scientists is crucial in both the critical evaluation and potential growth of this sector, and more and more of us are entering it. I want to use my unique combination of perspectives and expertise to: 1) inform and build bridges between paleoclimate and CDR science, and 2) to train the next generation of earth scientists to be paleoclimatologists, climate solvers, and everything in between.