I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My specific discipline is archaeology with a research focus on early maritime Pacific Rim hunter-gatherers. I am broadly interested in the underlying reasons for behavioral variations in coastal hunter-gatherers and in early migration and mobility into and within the New World. I am actively engaged in field work projects on Santa Cruz Island, California and on a submerged landscape in the southern Gulf of California off of Baja California Sur. For more detailed information on my research interests, please visit the research interests section of this site.