Research
WACSWAIN
The aim of the WACWAIN project is to investigate the possibility that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its ice shelves collapsed during the Last Interglacial. My primary role is to develop continuous flow methods and analyze and interpret the resulting chemical data.
Ice Core Records of Fire
As a graduate student, I developed methods to analyze organic biomass burning tracers in ice cores (vanillic acid and hydroxybenzoic acid). These are aerosols emitted from fires that can be transported through the atmosphere to ice sheets.