Presentations & Awards
Recent Presentations
International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG) — Summer 2025
Posters (x2)
Porto, Portugal
“Coupling and comparing GDGT- and Δ47-based temperature reconstructions (Central Mediterranean, Holocene)”
“Confirmation of Δ2-sterenes as precursors of 3-methylsteranes”
Awarded ‘Best Student Poster Presentation’
Gordon Conference in Geochemistry — Summer 2024
Poster
Holderness, NH
“Reconstructing Holocene temperature and hydrology change in the Adriatic region: A multi-proxy approach (Dalmatia Coast, Croatia)”
2nd International GDGT Workshop — Summer 2023
Poster
Zurich, Switzerland
“Preliminary exploration of GDGT types and distributions from a shallow Mediterranean paleolake (Holocene, Dalmatia Coast, Croatia)”
Other Professional Presentations
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting — Fall 2023
Poster
Chicago, IL
“Paleolake lipid biomarker records of environmental conditions during Mid-Neolithic human habitation (Dalmatia Coast, Croatia)”
Geological Society of America (GSA) National Meeting — Fall 2019
Talk
Phoenix, AZ
“High-resolution paired organic and carbonate carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ireviken Excursion (Silurian) from the Altajme core, Gotland, Sweden”
Cedar Valley Rock and Mineral Society — Spring 2019
Talk
Cedar Rapids, IA
“High-resolution paired organic and carbonate carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ireviken Excursion (Silurian) from the Altajme core, Gotland, Sweden”
NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium — Spring 2019
Talk
Urbandale, IA
“High-resolution paired organic and carbonate carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ireviken Excursion (Silurian) from the Altajme core, Gotland, Sweden”
Departmental Presentations
Penn State Graduate Student Colloquium — Spring 2023
Talk
“Reconstructing Adriatic paleoclimate across the Late Quaternary: A paired clumped carbonate isotope (Δ47) and GDGT (TEX86) proxy investigation”
Awarded ‘3rd Place - Best Pre-Comps Student Talk’
Penn State Graduate Student Colloquium — Spring 2022
Talk
“Lipid biomarker analysis (n-alkanes, PAHs) as a tool for understanding human-environmental interactions during the middle Neolithic (Dalmatia, Croatia)”
Awarded ‘1st Place - Best MS Student Talk’
Penn State Graduate Student Colloquium — Spring 2021
Talk
“Lipid biomarker analysis as a tool for understanding human and environmental conditions during the middle Neolithic (Dalmatia, Croatia)”
Awarded ‘2nd Place - Best MS Student Talk’
University of Iowa Geosciences Department Colloquium — Spring 2019
Talk
“Chemostratigraphy of the Silurian Ireviken Event”
Awards
2025 — Best Student Poster Presentation, International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG)
2025, 2023 — Earle S. Lenker Graduate Fellowship Fund, Penn State
2023 — Pottorf Endowment for Graduate Excellence in Geosciences, Penn State
2023 — Richard R. Parizek Graduate Fellowship, Penn State
Recognizes and supports research by graduate students exhibiting academic excellence.
2023 — 3rd Place in Pre-Comps Student Talks, Penn State Geosciences Graduate Colloquium
2022 — 1st Place in MS Student Talks, Penn State Geosciences Graduate Colloquium
2021 — 2nd Place in MS Student Talks, Penn State Geosciences Graduate Colloquium
2020-Present — Paul D. Krynine Scholarship Award, Penn State
Provides financial aid for deserving graduate students in any program of the Geosciences.
2019 — NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) Fellowship, University of Iowa
Granted to outstanding students pursuing NASA-aligned research opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines.
2019 — Lowden Prize in Geoscience, University of Iowa
This award is given to an Earth & Environmental Science major based on aptitude in field geology.
2016-2020 — Old Gold Scholarship, University of Iowa
Renewable, merit-based scholarship granted based on testing scores and GPA (ACT > 30, GPA > 3.8).
Myself (far right) and fellow graduate student awardees (middle) for Best Student Oral and Poster Presentations at 2025 IMOG Conference.