I attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota where I double majored in Geology and Geography. Here I discovered my passion for geology and cartography thanks to several great professors. I played on the men's golf team for a year and a half where I set the (since broken) single round low score record (68). 

I was blessed to work with Dr. Raymond Rogers for my undergraduate honors thesis research. My research focused on the non-marine sequence stratigraphy in the lower Two-Medicine Formation in NW Montana. I reviewed hundreds of geophysical well logs in attempts to correlate a fluvial sandstone in subcrop, which I modeled in ArcGIS. 
​​​​​Despite the influence of the Coronavirus, I completed field work assisting former University of Georgia Masters' student, Anik Regan, with her field work in the Judith River Formation. We measured hundreds of meters of section in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument while completing fossil counts in fluvial vs. floodplain facies.

All through college, I worked at Zimmerman's Dry Goods where I was a t-shirt screen printer, art designer, and project manager. My senior year, I held an internship at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO), where I collected stormwater samples and contributed to urban watershed research.

Undergraduate Thesis
Tracking a Late Cretaceous River: Subsurface Extent and Expression of the 80 Ma Nonmarine Sequence Boundary in Montana and Alberta

Macalester College 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster

GSA Connects 2022 Poster

Written Thesis Graphics

Above: Three graphics I am proud of from my written thesis. Block diagram (left) shows the geophysical log expression of the sand body we were tracing, the depositional schematic and relates the fluvial stacking pattern to changes in base level. Map (middle) shows the surface expression of the sand body and compares its avulsions to a modern analogue. Map and Model (right) show the results of my 3D modeling effort in ArcGIS.

Additional Works

A poster I made for a cartography class studying NBA Free Agent player movement between teams, trying to identify what factors influence free agent signings.
A color style guide I made for the same class about my neighborhood basketball court which was a refuge from being trapped inside during Covid.
A poster I made for my Structural Geology Course about the Seattle Fault.