For the first year of the child's life, she split her working time between home, where she wrote papers and grant applications, and the university's herbarium, where she restored
historical plant specimens.
Her work includes analysis of pond sediments, soils, and more collecting to document
plant diversity... We're also hoping to cast a broader net across Providence with an analysis of
historical specimens of Plantago [plantain] in an attempt to match terrestrial trends in heavy metal concentration with measurements taken from nearby marine sediments in Narragansett Bay [south of Providence].»