My project focuses on understanding how paleoclimate proxies vary through time and depth in a 30-year sediment trap time series in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. In terms of proxies, the Eastern Mediterranean is a problem area where nothing quite works the way we'd like. That means that proxy reconstructions from this region are a bit more uncertain than in much of the global ocean.

I've been measuring alkenones, GDGTs, Mg/Ca, and clumped isotopes to gain a mechanistic understanding of how each proxy producer records temperature variability on sub-monthly timescales and how this ultimately impacts the proxy signal in the underlying sediment.