I am an applied landscape, forest, and quantitative ecologist who focuses on the interface of science, management, and conservation.
I am broadly interested in how climate change and disturbances affect biodiversity and landscapes in the United States, particularly in light of changing fire regimes. My work encompasses a wide range of topics, often driven by gaps in scientific knowledge identified by management and conservation practitioners. I have a passion for determining how management and conservation decisions impact ecological populations and communities, and for quantifying landscape resilience from a socioecological perspective. I am additionally interested in how climatic changes, fire, land use, invasive species, and management decisions affect the interactions between plant and animal communities, particularly seed dispersal and pollination, as well as plant and landscape conservation.
I am currently a Research Associate at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. I am also a collaborator in the Western Fire and Forest Resilience Collaborative, within which I am the leader of the Impacts on People and Nature working group. I frequently collaborate on plant conservation and resilience projects with the Lab of Conservation Ecology at Northern Arizona University.
Prior to my current appointment, I was a Columbia Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology and a Visiting Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Landscape Conservation Initiative at Northern Arizona University (now the Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes). I completed my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.
I am broadly interested in how climate change and disturbances affect biodiversity and landscapes in the United States, particularly in light of changing fire regimes. My work encompasses a wide range of topics, often driven by gaps in scientific knowledge identified by management and conservation practitioners. I have a passion for determining how management and conservation decisions impact ecological populations and communities, and for quantifying landscape resilience from a socioecological perspective. I am additionally interested in how climatic changes, fire, land use, invasive species, and management decisions affect the interactions between plant and animal communities, particularly seed dispersal and pollination, as well as plant and landscape conservation.
I am currently a Research Associate at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. I am also a collaborator in the Western Fire and Forest Resilience Collaborative, within which I am the leader of the Impacts on People and Nature working group. I frequently collaborate on plant conservation and resilience projects with the Lab of Conservation Ecology at Northern Arizona University.
Prior to my current appointment, I was a Columbia Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology and a Visiting Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History in the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Landscape Conservation Initiative at Northern Arizona University (now the Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes). I completed my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.