Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Graduate Student, Anthropology
About
My research is broadly directed toward understanding the ecological context of human evolution. I use stable isotopes to study the interactions between climate, vegetation, and mammals in both modern and fossil terrestrial East African ecosystems. Studying modern environments is critical for developing better models to interpret data derived from the fossil record. I am particularly interested in capturing seasonality, vegetation structure, and vegetation heterogeneity. Reconstructing these ecological parameters in the fossil record is critical for evaluating specific hypotheses linking climate and environmental change to the selective conditions driving hominin adaptation. I am also interested in the dietary ecology of extant mammals, particularly primates.
