I am a paleoclimatologist and oceanographer. My primary research focus is understanding the impacts and variability of North Atlantic surface currents and rapid climate changes of the recent past (Late Holocene). Trained in the methods of sclerochronology, I measure the physical and chemical properties within the shells of marine bivalves as proxies for past environmental variability. I am also interested in improving geochemical and statistical techniques applied to paleoclimate proxies in general, focusing on radiocarbon and stable carbon and oxygen isotope methods.