About
As a vertebrate paleontologist, my research asks how animals with backbones living on land (and the larger ecosystems they lived in) evolved through deep time, particularly in response to climate change and other global events. This work investigates fossil ecosystems and environments that span in age from over 300 million years old to less than 10,000 years old, and has resulted in many years of fieldwork in Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Argentina, and Ethiopia. Our collaborative research groups include geoscientsts from a variety of displicines to date the fossil-bearing sediments and reconstruct climate and environments the animals were living in.
I am a Curator of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Utah, and a Professor in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, both part of the University of Utah, where I have worked since 2009. I received my BS in Geology (Emphasis in Paleontology) from Northern Arizona University in 2004, and my PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008.
Joined
March 2016
