I worked in field schools in Ciutadella, Menorca, Spain and Hemse, Gotland, Sweden in the summer of 2015.
Interned for ACE and the BLM in Barstow in 2017 as the Mojave Desert and Sand to Snow National Monuments archaeologist. Survey work, GIS mapping, and environmental stabilization work.
From February 2018 to July 2019 Wrote and completed a Master's Degree in Archaeology (with credit/merit) from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand under the supervision of Dr. Richard Walter.
ESTABLISHING AN EXPLORER
Inspiration
Do you know that feeling? That anxiousness and exhilaration you get when you find the book that you can't put down, that TV show or movie series you HAVE to keep watching, that new song that you HAVE to listen to over and over again.
An archaeologist adventurer attempting to experience life off the beaten track. Since I was 3 or 4 years old I have wanted to be an archaeologist, and I achieved that dream when I earned my bachelor's degree in archaeology from UC San Diego with a minor in marine science. While taking a study abroad course in London some of the other students and I visited the Maritime Museum in Greenwich where I had an epiphany telling me to work in maritime archaeology.
Archaeological Work
Since then I have earned my Master's of Arts in Archaeology from the University of Otago in Aotearoa (New Zealand), worked for NOAA in the Chesapeake Bay, finished a year of PhD coursework in Hawai`i before stopping that program and got two new archaeology jobs with Keala Pono and SWCA. And am relocating to Portland, Oregon.
I have taken field courses in Mexico and Guatemala, and done fieldwork in Menorca, Spain (maritime archaeology), Gotland, Sweden, Tuahata in the Marquesas Islands, California, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Hawai`i and Guam.
Though I'm no longer pursuing a PhD, I am continuing to research and write. And, of course, continue travelling around the world to have incredible experiences and share them through accessible and educational writing and photography.