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I am a quantitative ecologist who enjoys working at the interface of ecology and statistics to estimate population- and community-level processes. My research interests are varied, but focus on the use of quantitative tools to better inform conservation and management.
I am currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Zipkin Quantitative Ecology Lab at MSU. My research here is focused on developing methods to integrate biological collections data into rigorous population-level analyses to estimate long-term population trends. I am also an affiliate Rose Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where I am developing and validating new quantitative methods to understand spatiotemporal patterns in avian biodiversity, with a focus on multifunctional landscapes. My dissertation research as part of the Applied Population Ecology Lab at Penn State focused on quantifying community dynamics and interactions in the context of environmental change. Outside of research, I enjoy developing outreach programs and teaching modules for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals. Most recently, I developed and taught my own experiential- and project-based undergraduate course at Penn State that focused on the theory and application of occupancy and capture-recapture analyses. |
Updates
May 2021 - I officially started my NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology, so I suppose I am a butterfly person now?! I am also continuing as an affiliate fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to continue my research on spatiotemporal patterns in avian biodiversity, and eventually find overlapping themes between the two projects.
Jul. 2020 - I moved back to Ithaca, NY to start my Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ready to get to work on joint species distribution models!!
Jun. 2020 - Successfully defended my dissertation at Penn State University!!!
Apr. 2020 - Accepted an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology to work with Elise Zipkin (Michigan State University), Leslie Reis (Georgetown University), and Rob Guralnick (University of Florida and Florida Natural History Museum)! Start date of May 2021. I'll be working on data integration related to the use of biological collections data to track long-term population trends.
Feb. 2020 - Accepted position as Rose Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology! Start date of August 2020. I'll be working on a flexible and scalable modeling framework in order to understand spatiotemporal patterns in community assembly and diversity, and answer both foundational and applied questions in community ecology. Excited to work with Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Daniel Fink, Orin Robinson, Carla Gomes and others at Cornell!
Jul. 2020 - I moved back to Ithaca, NY to start my Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Ready to get to work on joint species distribution models!!
Jun. 2020 - Successfully defended my dissertation at Penn State University!!!
Apr. 2020 - Accepted an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology to work with Elise Zipkin (Michigan State University), Leslie Reis (Georgetown University), and Rob Guralnick (University of Florida and Florida Natural History Museum)! Start date of May 2021. I'll be working on data integration related to the use of biological collections data to track long-term population trends.
Feb. 2020 - Accepted position as Rose Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology! Start date of August 2020. I'll be working on a flexible and scalable modeling framework in order to understand spatiotemporal patterns in community assembly and diversity, and answer both foundational and applied questions in community ecology. Excited to work with Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Daniel Fink, Orin Robinson, Carla Gomes and others at Cornell!
