About 

Previously, I got my PhD in Earth & Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University, working with Simon Darroch. My PhD projects included:

• morphometric analysis of Ediacaran – Cambrian organic-walled microfossils 

• experimental taphonomy of eukaryotic algae (in revision)

• petrography of fossiliferous Tonian iron carbonate nodules (in prep)

As a master's student at University of California, Santa Barbara, I worked with Susannah Porter to document organic preservation of Tonian microfossils.