Undergraduate
My research interests include paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, and geochemistry. I am primarily interested in using dust proxies (in addition to major and trace elements, and U/Th isotopes) from North Pacific Ocean sediment cores to reconstruct the strength and latitudinal shift of the westerlies over the last glacial cycle. Westerly winds are important to study because they play a critical role in the global climate. Additionally, studying past warm period conditions is helpful in understanding future warming forced by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.