Marcus is a Master's Student in Physical Geography at the University of Toronto, supervised by Dr. Sarah Finkelstein. His thesis focuses on the carbon dynamics of the James and Hudson Bay coastlines, and how the different successional types of coastal wetlands can influence carbon sequestration. He is also interested in how paleoecology can be used to reconstruct ancient coastal environments that formed under different climate regimes, and what these reconstructions can tell us about how modern coasts might respond to climate change. Aside from his research, he has interests in classical antiquity and trivia.