I am captivated by Earth’s climate history, and how that can inform our understanding of modern-day climate change. My doctoral research focused on climate-ecosystem interactions via both paleontological and stable isotope records during extreme global warming events of the early Eocene. Specifically, I used fossils collected from Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin to learn how early mammals and ecosystems responded to the PETM, ETM2, and H2 hyperthermals.