He received a B.S. from the Cornell University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 2003 and Ph.D. from Boston University in 2012. For the latter, Chris studied the role of changes in sea level and sediment supply on Holocene coastal evolution under the direction of Duncan FitzGerald. He then worked as a postdoctoral scholar under the supervision of Valier Galy at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), studying the effects of climate change on terrestrial organic-carbon dynamics in the Ganges-Brahmaputra/Bengal Fan system since the Last Glacial Maximum. Chris is now working to apply the tools of sedimentology and organic chemistry to investigate the link between sediment-supply driven coastal evolution and past climatic variability in diverse coastal settings, with a goal of using this link to forecast future responses to regionally-specific climate changes.