Dr. Stinchcomb earned his Ph.D. in geology in 2012 from Baylor University. He served as a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor and then at Penn State University from 2013 to 2014. He joined Murray State in 2014. Dr. Stinchcomb is trained in geoarchaeology, Quaternary geology and soil geomorphology. His research focuses on mapping and quantifying human-environmental interactions from the rise of early humans to the Industrial Age. He is especially interested in quantifying human impacts on Holocene alluvial landscapes using a mass-balance/systems approach.