About Me
I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Hamilton College. As a conservation ecologist, I’m broadly interested in applying principles of ecological theory to address pressing questions about biodiversity loss and species conservation. My work spans a variety of taxa and encompasses modeling, experimental, and observational approaches.
Current News
Life update! As of Fall 2023, I have started a new one year position at Hamilton College! I am a visiting assistant professor in the Environmental Studies program, where I will be teaching core courses in the major related to environmental studies and data science. I am SO excited to join the Hamilton community!
My first dissertation chapter has been published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. In this study, which was selected as Editor’s Choice for its issue, I developed a simple model to explore how interactions between multiple socio-ecological drivers of wildlife harvest can result in a rare species being hunted to extinction. Check out the study here!
I presented some of the work from my first chapter at the Graduate Research in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Symposium (GREBE)! GREBE is a conference organized by graduate students at Rutgers, Columbia, Penn, Princeton, and Yale to share exciting and novel ecological research. You can listen to my presentation, for which I was awarded Best Talk of the symposium’s ecology session, here!