I am an experienced academic researcher and lecturer in the Geosciences. I have been a professor of Environmental Science at William Paterson University of New Jersey since 2012. My research interests can be divided into two key areas: (1) the first is centered around the use of biogeochemical tracers in sedimentary archives (e.g., cave deposits, terrestrial and marine fossil teeth, corals, lake sediments) to explore changes in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and by extension evolution of the earth’s systems. I am particularly interested in building records of past environmental, climatic, and ecological change over various time scales ranging from the last few hundred years to the last ~100 million years; (2) the second is primarily focused on utilizing climate model simulations of the past to assess mechanisms, test hypotheses, and in turn help to answer fundamental questions in climate science.I completed my B.S. in Geosciences at the University of Wollongong in 2004, my M.S. in Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 2006, and Ph.D. in Physical Geography at the University of Newcastle (Australia) in 2010. I completed my postdoctoral work at the University of California, Irvine where I was a NOAA/UCAR Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow. I have published my work in high-impact journals, including Science, Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. My work has been featured in media outlets around the world, including The New York Times, CNN, The Independent, BBC, New Scientist, and Scientific American. I have received in excess of two million dollars (USD) in funding from such funding agencies as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, and the American Chemical Society.Outside the laboratory and lecture hall, I spend time with my family, riding waves and mountains, exploring caves in the remote jungles of southeast Asia, and visiting my homeland of Australia.