Mentoring, Advising, & Training

Mentoring:

My sediment-encased maturation method has already been used by graduate students from the following institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, and China:

University of Hong Kong – Ph.D. student; Two chapters of 2021 thesis on feather pigment maturation

University of Chicago – Ph.D. student; Amber maturation

University of California Davis – Ph.D. student; Steroid maturation

University of Bristol – M.Sci. student; 2023 thesis on hormone maturation based on modern, fossil, capsule maturation, & sediment-encased maturation samples I processed & lipid extracted

Additional students from the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and China have inquired about using my method in their Ph.D. projects.

Ph.D. student uses my sediment-encased maturation method to produce a peer-reviewed publication, with another manuscript currently under review as a preprint.

Advising:

Undergraduate students

Field Museum – summer intern* & volunteer supervising

*Supported by University of Chicago’s Jeff Metcalf Internship Program; became study coauthor & later pursued science in graduate school

Undergraduate participation in research leads to peer-reviewed publication

Training:

Northwestern University – “Earth Science for the 21st Century”, two graduate student teaching assistants

University of Illinois Chicago – “Introduction to Paleontology”, graduate student teaching assistant