Cari is a PhD student supervised by Professor Andrew Mackintosh. He received his Bachelor of Science in geology from James Madison University for work dealing with X-ray-fluorescence chemostratigraphy of seafloor sediment cores and his Master of Science in geology from Tulane University for work dealing with the interpretation of erosion rates from paired cosmogenic-nuclide concentrations. His PhD project is titled “Post-last-glacial-maximum Lambert-area glacial history.”