Researchers

I am a paleoecologist and biogeographer. I work at a variety of temporal and spatial scales and mostly focus on patterns of body size. I am interested in the ecological and evolutionary consequences of size, including how size structures communities and how size interacts with the thermal environment. I have worked in a variety of habitats across the western US and Baja California, including many of the landbridge islands. Currently much of our work is in Death Valley and in Wyoming, where we use packrat middens to investigate the body size of woodrats over time and relate that to temperature shifts.