I am a PhD candidate in the Geography Department at Florida State University. My interests are in interdisciplinary approaches. I combine methods from across the sciences and humanities to extract scientific data from historical documents. My current project is “The Historical Climatology of the Southeastern United States.” I lead a ten person research team that is extracting environmental data from handwritten documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

I have a range of experiences that contribute to my work. I served for four years as a geospatial imagery analyst in the US Army. I also received a master’s degrees in history and GIScience. I have participated in FSU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program for the past two years. This has given me the chance to mentor young students and work together on my research.