Currently a doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech working in the Coastal Hazards Lab with Dr. Tina Dura. Research focused around subduction zone paleoseismology and the application of microfossil diatoms and high-resolution grain-size analysis to investigate tsunami inundation and earthquake-based land level changes. I use coastal stratigraphy, microfossils, and sediment proxies to understand ancient tsunamis, past earthquake rupture characteristics, and the history of sea level rise in the North American Pacific Northwest, the Pacific coast of Chile, and in subduction zones around the world.