About Me Growing up in Colorado I was always curious about the landscapes around me and how they formed. I formalized these interests at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, where I earned my B.S. in geology in 2013. My senior thesis was a geochemical study of the Basalt of Summit Creek, a Pre-Cascade (Eocene) volcanic unit located SE of Mt Rainier in WA. My goals were to determine the causes of chemical diversity within the Basalt of Summit Creek and the tectonic setting in which it formed, with the larger aim of gaining insights into Pacific Northwest tectonics during the Eocene and the transition from widespread and chemically unusual magmatism to focused magmatism of the Cascade arc, which persists to this day. After graduating In the fall of 2013 I had an internship at an environmental consulting firm in Quito, Ecuador. Although Ecuador is only about the the size of Nevada, 23 volcanos have been active during the past 1000 years. Despite this, the underlying magmatic systems are poorly understood. I quickly realized that there were a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the country’s volcanos. This realization led me to the University of Wyoming, where I began a PhD program in the fall of 2015. At Wyoming I’m lucky enough to have the opportunity to study Quaternary volcanics in Ecuador. I’m thrilled to have the chance to contribute to this exciting field.