ABOUT

I graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology in August 2020. During my Ph.D., I studied the responses of Wood Storks to human-induced landscape change in South Florida.

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I received my M.S. in Environmental Science from Florida Gulf Coast University and my Bachelor's degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. 

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My broad research interests include urban ecology, developing an understanding of the responses of avian species to human-induced rapid environmental change, and an understanding of how humans and wildlife can coexist in an increasingly human-influenced landscape.

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I am currently a postdoc at the National Wildlife Research Center's Florida Field Station in Gainesville, Florida. My focus is on Black Vulture research and management in the southeastern United States.