{"id":6,"date":"2026-02-24T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:51:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Emme Kasprzyk<\/h2>\n<p>Emme Kasprzyk is a geology graduate and early-career paleoenvironmental researcher with experience in sediment core analysis, fossil pollen processing, and multiproxy reconstruction of environmental change.<\/p>\n<p>She graduated from James Madison University (JMU) in May 2025 with a Bachelor of Science in Geology and a concentration in Life, Ocean, &amp; Climate (Major GPA 3.38).<\/p>\n<p>Emme currently serves as a U.S. Geological Survey Research Volunteer at the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center in Reston, Virginia, where she is sampling and processing sediment core material and contributing to multiproxy climate and moisture reconstructions.<\/p>\n<p>Her recent research has focused on tidal marsh cores, fossil pollen, and paleoenvironmental change through time, including work at JMU and conference presentations at GSA and AGU.<\/p>\n<h3>Current areas of interest<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from sediment cores<\/li>\n<li>Fossil pollen and vegetation\/land-use change<\/li>\n<li>Multiproxy methods for climate and moisture history<\/li>\n<li>Geoscience communication, teaching, and public-facing scientific writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic bio and graduate application overview for Emme Kasprzyk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmekasprzyk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}