Education
Ph.D. candidate, Geosciences, Princeton University, 2007 (expected)
Thesis title: The use of nitrogen isotopes to evaluate the role of polar oceans in mediating global
climate change
Research Advisor: Daniel Sigman
M.A., Geosciences, Princeton University, 2004
General examination fields: Marine nitrogen cycle and paleoceanography
Research Advisor: Daniel Sigman
B.A., major in Earth Sciences, minor in German, Boston University, 2002
With distinction, summa cum laude
Thesis title: The role of Norwegian Sea Water in the North Atlantic during the Pleistocene
Research advisor: Maureen Raymo
Academic
experience
Research Assistant, Geosciences Department, Princeton University, August 2002-present
Generate, quantitatively analyze, and integrate geochemical data from marine systems to
draw conclusions about past global climates
Assistant-in-Instruction, Geosciences Department, Princeton University, Fall 2004
Prepared and
led laboratory and review sessions for an undergraduate course entitled A Guided
Tour of the
Solar System
Research Assistant, USCG Healy, June 2002
Collected water and sediment samples for nutrient and isotope analyses during three-week
research cruise in the Bering Sea
Research Assistant, German Department, Boston University, Spring 2000
Aided professor in preparing a manuscript on the concept of memory in early 20th-century
Viennese literature
Research Interests
Marine biogeochemical cycles with an emphasis on the nitrogen cycle
Stable isotope geochemistry
Paleoceanography with a focus on the polar oceans
Pleistocene climate change
Relevant Graduate Coursework
Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Paleoclimatology,
Biogeochemical Cycles in Earth Systems, Planetary Geochemistry, Chemical Oceanography,
Physical Oceanography, Science in Environmental Policy
Fellowships and Awards
D.o.D., National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, 2003-2006
Centennial Fellowship and Dusenbury prize for high academic standing, Princeton
University, 2002
College Prize in Earth Sciences (awarded to most meritorious graduating student in
Earth Sciences), Boston University, 2002
Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University, 2002
UROP Research Grant (advisor: Maureen Raymo), Boston University, 2001
Service and Select
Activities
Seminar Coordinator, Organized weekly group meetings for the presentation of ongoing
graduate and postdoctoral research, Princeton University, 2003-2004
Retreat Coordinator, Planned and organized the winter ski retreat for the Geosciences
Department, Princeton University, Winter 2003
Selected participant, Summer School on Paleoclimate Dynamics and Observations, Aosta,
Italy, June 2003
Technical: Experience with isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, colorimetry, chemiluminescence,
and scanning electron microscopy
Languages: German (competent), French (basic), Russian (rudimentary)