I am a paleoceanographer interested in glacial-interglacial climate change and the role of the ocean in major climate transitions.

I am a Lamont Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, working with Sidney Hemming and Steve Goldstein. I am reconstructing past ocean circulation in the Cape Basin using sediments collected on IODP Expedition 361.​

During graduate school, I worked with Jess Adkins, John Eiler, and Andrew Thompson at Caltech. I combined precise geochemical measurements on fossil deep-sea corals with simple physical models of the ocean in order to understand changes in ocean circulation in the past.

​My research incorporates our current understanding of modern ocean physics as a basis for interpreting geochemical tracers.

shines @ ldeo . columbia . edu
845 . 365 . 8401
61 Route 9W
P.O. Box 1000
Palisades, NY 10964
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