I grew up in the city of Austin, Texas, daughter of a northeast transplant and a Texan. My fascination with geology and paleontology began when I was in grade school and visited Inner Space Cavern in Georgetown on a school field trip. I entered graduate school as a vertebrate paleontologist as I was obsessed with the history of life. I switched to stable isotope geochemistry because I realized that I was actually more interested in the history of our climate and how it affects ecosystem dynamics.

My dissertation used clumped isotopes and phosphate-oxygen isotopes in modern gar fish as a paleoclimate proxy to recreate past hydrological cycles, using the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary as a test case. Before starting my postdoc, I taught two semesters of Introduction to Environmental Science at Austin Community College in the spring and summer semesters. I previously was UDSA-NIFA-AFRI fellow at the University of Delaware. I am now a Blaustein Fellow in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

Current address:
123 Olin Hall
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218

E-mail: kgray37 [at] jh.edu

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