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Research Interests

• Geomicrobiology and Microbial Paleobiology

• Microbial Ecology and Ecophysiology

• Molecular Biosignatures

• Mass Extinction Events: Causes, Recovery, and Fidelity of Boundary Records

• Astrobiology

Education

• B.S. Geology, cum laude, University of Arizona, 2003

Honors Thesis: Fossil Preservation Following the K/T Acid Rain Event

Honors Thesis Advisors: Dr. Andrew S. Cohen and Dr. David A. Kring

• Ph.D. , Geology and Geobiology, University of Southern California, 2008

Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Frank A. Corsetti

Professional Training Courses

• MBL Microbial Diversity Summer Course, Woods Hole, 2007

• Agouron International Geobiology Summer Course, Wrigley Institute 2004

Professional Experience and Employment

• 2010-present: Assistant Professor of Geobiology, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

• 2008-2009: Agouron Geobiology Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

• 2005-2008: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, University of Southern California

• 2004-2005: Organic Geochemistry Intern, Southern California Coastal Water

Research Project (SCCWRP)

• 2003-2004: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California

Center

• Summer 2002: Lunar and Planetary Institute Research Intern, NASA Johnson Space

Center Astromaterials Facility

Awards, Fellowships, and Honors

• Agouron Institute Geobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008

• Best talk, Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Caltech, 2007

• USC Phi Kappa Phi All-University Student Recognition Award for Research, 2007

• Certificate of Exceptional Merit for Grant Proposal, Geological Society of America

• USC Dept. of Earth Sciences General Education Teaching Assistant Award

• College of Science Overall Outstanding Senior, University of Arizona

• Dept. of Geosciences Outstanding Senior, University of Arizona     

Recent Invited Talks

2011: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Biology Department Seminar
2011: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Center for Geomicrobiology, Seminar
2010: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Great Lakes Water Institute, Seminar