Turns out putting a school-sanctioned golf course right next to a school-sanctioned student parking lot is a really bad idea! Thanks VT🫡

Goodbye to one of my two opportunities to get a federally funded postdoc fellowship. I’m trying to carry on as normal but it seems like each day things get more hopeless…

I’m going to be very busy the rest of the week. Taylor Swift needs my manuscript by Friday!

Got to check Kīlauea off my geology bucket list this weekend! Had a wonderful time despite the eruption being paused.

Microbes were going crazy after Snowball Earth. Very cool to see the Rasthof Fm cap carbonate in Namibia!

Really excited to participate in this virtual panel as part of #ScienceTalk 2025! The VT SciComm ecosystem has been one of my favorite parts of my time at Virginia Tech😊

My interpretation of Pokemon x fossil organisms! First up: Anomalocaris, colored hot pink because why not. Who should I do next? #paleoart

Bighorn sheep skull from the Pahranagat Mountains, Nevada! The horns can weigh up to 30lbs (they sure felt heavy to me!)

Merry Fieldmas! Recently returned from some chilly fieldwork in western MD. We finally finished the section I’ve been working since 2020 — over 2000 meters measured!

Fossils **in outcrop** in Calvert County, MD! Most of the time we find these Miocene shells in loose sediments, but this bed in my local park preserves them as internal molds.

Photo really doesn’t do it justice, but this is my tribute to phosphorus speciation, the scariest of all geochem lab procedures. 👻

Hi! 👋 If you’re heading to GSA next weekend please consider checking out my talk on Sunday morning! Should be a fun discussion of the weird & wonderful Harkless Fm and the Fe speciation proxy😊