Adjunct lecturer at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. 

He is interested in paleontology, paleoecology, taphonomy, and phylogeny of marine vertebrates with an emphasis on marine mammals. Research at the College of Charleston focuses on the immensely important but critically understudied assemblage of early whales (Mysticeti) and dolphins (Odontoceti) from the Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge formations of the Charleston embayment.