Paleontology and Magnetostratigraphy of Wyoming
	Much of my current research focuses on studying early Cenozoic sedimentary and paleontological records in order to understand how climate change has influenced mammalian evolution. This work can be broken down into three main topics: 1) studying mammalian and sedimentological turnover across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary and other early Paleogene warm intervals, 2) calibrating the timing of the Paleogene part of the North American Land Mammal Age (NALMA) framework and correlating mammal faunas from other continents (Africa, Asia, South America) to this framework using magnetostratigraphy, and 3) investigating the key variables that control paleosol development. To the left is a picture of early Eocene paleosols in the Wasatch Formation near South Pass, Wyoming. These beds record the boundary between the Wasatchian and Bridgerian Land Mammal Ages which corresponds to one of the warmest intervals of earth history.
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