Chronology
I recieved my B.S. in Geosciences from Mississippi
State University in 2002. Please visit the Department
of Geoscience webpage.
After graduation, I worked for the National Park Service at Great Basin National Park. I was employed as a physical science technician with the cave crew in the resource management division.
After leaving Great Basin in 2003, I moved to Tampa, Florida. I received my M.S. degree in Geology from the University of South Florida in 2005. My research interests include hydrology, karst geomorphology and GIS. Please visit the USF Karst Research Group webpage. My thesis focused on mapping karst sinkholes in Pinellas County, FL using airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM). Link to .pdf forthcoming.
After graduation, I worked for FEMA at the Long Term Recovery Office in Orlando, Florida. My primary duty was GIS analysis for post-Hurricane Wilma recovery.
I am
currently employed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Oxford,
MS.
Hobbies: caving, rock
climbing, mountain biking and watching college football.
Stephanie, Don, and PJ. Crescent Top Cave,
San Salvador, Bahamas
Brittlestar in an intertidal pool,
San Salvador, Bahamas
Tight squeeze in Lehman Annex,
Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Interstate 55 contraflow at McComb, MS
the day before Hurricane Katrina
The Capitol building, Havana, Cuba