PhD Candidate
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I am a PhD Candidate in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Before starting my PhD research, I earned a BA in Biological Sciences and a BA in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2016, after which I worked as a research intern in the Paleobiology Department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. My broad research interests include paleoecology, biogeography, and conservation paleobiology. My dissertation work focuses on analyzing how the functional diversity of North American mammalian communities has changed since Last Glacial Maximum. I am particularly interested in studying how climate change and extinction events have affected past communities in order to better understand how extant communities will react to anthropogenic ecological disturbances.