My research focuses on integrating paleomagnetism, paleobotany, and paleoclimatology to reconstruct past ecosystems. I utilize this interdisciplinary approach to address the way that terrestrial ecosystems respond to climate change through time. I use paleobotanical techniques to reconstruct paleoenvironments, estimate paleoclimate, and examine the evolutionary history of plant communities. Paleomagnetism is used for age dating and correlation. Through this integration, it becomes possible to study plant communities then make regional and global correlations to synchronous ecosystems. Using these correlations, I can test local, regional, and global hypotheses about evolution, paleoenvironment, paleoecology, and paleoclimate.
