My postdoctoral research is a collaboration with Dr. Fabiany Herrera, at the Field Museum, and Dr. Gussie Maccracken and Dr. Tyler Lyson at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where the Castle Rock collections are deposited. During my postdoc, I am excited to implement bilingual science communication and public outreach and to mentor high school and undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds. My graduate research on Patagonian Paleofloras is in collaboration with paleobotanists at Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF; Trelew, Argentina), and Museo Paleontológico Bariloche (Bariloche, Argentina). At MEF, I visited the collections to curate, image, and analyze the many fossil plants there for weeks at a time. Back home, I worked with my large fossil image libraries to complete other stages of research. In addition to museum work abroad, I also studied collections housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA.
My research also frequently brings me to herbaria and botanical gardens across the country to study living plant collections for comparison with our fossil material. Some of the plant collections I have made of Southern Hemisphere conifers are now a part of the collections at the Penn State Herbarium (PAC).
See my additional sub-pages on my museum outreach at Penn State with the Earth and Mineral Science Museum, and on my past museum collections and field experiences with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.