I am a quantitative and landscape ecologist working with the Watershed Research and Training Center. I enjoy finding and drumming my head against hard problems, which has led me to work across many disciplines. These include studying the evolution of chemical communication in newts, disease dynamics and ecology in frogs, finding lost and forgotten meadows of the Sierra Nevada, using deep learning models to find illegal cannabis cultivation and historical road scars, among other topics.
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I live in Arcata, California. I earned a Masters degree from Humboldt State University in 2015. My thesis research covered pheromone evolution in Pacific newts and the role those pheromones may play in the reproductive isolation of the four species in California.