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Lamont Associate Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Biology and Paleo Environment
211 Geoscience
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
Phone:
(845) 365-8308
Fax:
(845) 365-8150

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Fields of interest:
My primary research interest is in reconstructing ancient terrestrial ecosystems using light stable isotopes (H, C, N, & O), molecular biomarkers, and other geochemical tools. I also employ these tools to study modern ecosystems in East Africa.
Honors & Awards:
Outstanding PhD Student, University of Utah, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 2012
AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2001
secondary department:
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, Resource Faculty Member
Referenced in the Following News Items:
Selected Publications:
Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification
Nature Geoscience
(2019)
Large mammal diets and paleoecology across the OldowaneAcheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania from OldowaneAcheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania from stable isotope and tooth wear analyses
Journal of Human Evolution
(2018)
A Neogene biomarker record of vegetation change in eastern Africa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume: 113
p.: 6355-6363
(2016)
A Pleistocene paleovegetation record from plant-wax biomarkers from the Nachukui Formation, West Turkana, Kenya
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Volume: 371
p.: e10
(2016)
Bomb-curve radiocarbon measurement of recent biologic tissues and applications to wildlife forensics and stable isotope (paleo)ecology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume: 110
p.: 11736- 11741
(2013)
Late Miocene to Pliocene carbon isotope record of differential diet change among East African herbivores
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume: 108
p.: 6509-6514
(2011)