About Me
I am excited to be starting as a Visiting-Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College in 2025!
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My research has explored how species traits and environmental stressors interact to shape plant community dynamics, dune formation, and ecosystem resilience. More recently, I’ve been developing an R package the provides a probabilistic wrapper to the Hector simple climate model. I enjoy teaching data science skills and ecology field courses especially those with a focus on developing competency in scientific inquiry and research.
Outside of work my passions are cycling and coffee! I am an avid road cyclist and I am always on the lookout for a great coffee shop. I also love spending time with my partner cooking, watching movies, collecting and listening to vinyl records, and reading.
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University, B.S. 2013
Virginia Commonwealth University, M.S. 2016
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Thesis: Emergent interactions influence functional traits and success of dune building ecosystem engineers
Virginia Commonwealth University, PhD 2021
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Dissertation: Plant Communities in Dynamic Systems: How Disturbance Influence Coastal Plant Community Structure and Function