I am a PhD student working in Dr. Mark Abbott's research group. I use physical, chemical, and biological signals preserved in lake sediments to study climate change over a variety of time scales. Right now, I am working on reconstructing changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system in the Ecuadorian Andes by studying stratigraphic signals related to El Nino related flooding over the past 12,000 years