Elizabeth is originally from Garrettsville, Ohio and received her B.Sc. in Geology from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. As a freshman, Elizabeth took an introductory geology course that focused on the geology of the Blue Ridge Mountains. After several weekly labs along the Blue Ridge Parkway Elizabeth was hooked and knew she wanted to major in geology. As a junior she was part of an on-going study of Acropora Cervicornis –an endangered coral species in Belize, to assess the survivability of the species in the Belize Barrier Reef. For her senior thesis, Elizabeth switched gears to study river erosion through plucking along the Cowpasture River in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.Throughout her education Elizabeth has spent a lot of time in the field including in areas such as New Zealand, Belize, Virginia, Southeast Utah, the Guadalupe Mountains, and the Oklahoma/Missouri/Arkansas region.

As a graduate student Elizabeth moved to Oklahoma to pursue an education in petroleum geology. For her Masters thesis she is looking at how to utilize machine-learning techniques, such as clustering and artificial neural networks, to predict facies in non-cored wells. The study is focused on the Mississippian Limestone in north central Oklahoma and aims to fill in the gaps in models that have limited core data available. During the summer of 2017 Elizabeth interned at Devon Energy in Oklahoma City where she worked in the Eagleford Group assessing the resource potential in Cretaceous sands in South Texas. This summer she will be an intern with Denbury Resources in Plano, TX.

Recently, Elizabeth received an award for a Top Ten Poster at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in 2017 held in Houston, TX.