Hi! My name is Emery, and I joined the Kemp Lab in spring 2025. While I am from the Dallas area, I have spent every summer hiking, biking, and kayaking my way through the beautiful Rockies. That constant outdoors time naturally translated to an interest in a degree in environmental science with a minor in geology. Paleontology was my dream career as a kid (as I'm sure it was for many), but, as I grew up, I began to focus on conservation efforts surrounding the Blackland Prairie and research on White-nose syndrome in bats leading up to my time in college. An introduction connecting the two began in my first semester at UT, and my passion for it has only grown since. Within the Kemp Lab, I work with my graduate mentor, Tianyi Xu, on the reptiles found within our Jamaican deposits. I identify and catalog the thousands of lizards we have picked from our matrix, photograph hundreds of the most complete specimens, and have created and used a novel GMM landmarking scheme on hundreds of Jamaican galliwasp dentaries. I have also refined open-source CT scans using Dragonfly and visited the University of Florida's collections for two weeks in July of 2025 to expand the Kemp Lab's Jamaican Vertebrate Reference Collection. Outside of school, I am a recreational beekeeper in my school's beekeeping society, enjoy reading, am an avid hiker, run, play basketball, and am learning to play guitar