She is a research scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature and holds a professorship at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
Her doctorate was obtained at Duke University and her main interests are evolutionary functional morphology, particularly at the polar climes.
She has also contributed to the understanding of the biomechanics of Suminia, a primitive mammal thought to exhibit early evidence of teeth and jaw structure specialized for chewing.
[2] Her discovery of a fossil tibia of a High Arctic camel was featured in a November 2015 TED talk given by Radiolab producer Latif Nasser.
She concluded Dipoides and modern beavers shared a common ancestor approximately 24 million years ago.