I was born and raised in the drop dead gorgeous mountain town of Telluride Colorado.  It was there that I learned to love the world around me and began to question how it worked. This adventure of discovery took me first to the big city of Boston for college. I attended Harvard University, but my journey took an unexpected turn within a week of arriving. After becoming hopelessly lost in the vast Science Center at the heart of the Harvard campus, I stumbled upon an introductory geology course. Little did I know this class would take me down an incredible road in my education, leading me straight to the department of Earth and Planetary Science. Here I learned to love science, but it was my ventures to the field that would lead me to love volcanoes. From Hawaii to the ancient volcanoes of Yellowstone, I traveled and found that the more I knew the more questions I had. And so here I am now, a PhD student at the University of Oregon attempting to add to the vast body of scientific knowledge and satiate my own curiosity about volcanic systems. Though it seems like the ride of a lifetime just finding geology and getting to this point, I know now that this adventure is only just getting started. . .

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