Presentations
Slides from talks and posters presented at professional meetings and departmental seminars are hosted on Figshare.
Talks
2021 Northwest Lichenologists Virtual Symposium. "Leveraging biological collections & undergraduate research to map host-parasite distributions in lichens." 3/27/2021
2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Leveraging biological collections & undergraduate research to map host-parasite distributions in lichens." 8/3/2020
2020 California Lichen Society Keynote Address. "Why do we study lichens?" 1/25/2020
2016 International Association for Lichenology Symposium & 2016 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Taxon-free detection of cross-scale assembly processes in lichen epiphyte communities." 8/2/2016 & 8/10/2016
2016 Biology Department Seminar at Cal Poly. "Does environmental heterogeneity promote diversity? Large scale insight from lichens and birds." 4/8/2016
2016 American Society of Naturalists Meeting at Asilomar. "Environmental optimality, not heterogeneity, drives regional and local species richness in lichen epiphytes." 1/12/2016
2015 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Does canopy microclimate structure lichen epiphyte communities? Evidence from intra- versus interspecific variation in functional traits." 8/9/2015
2014 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Do more niches or better niches promote species richness? Insight from local and regional drivers of lichen diversity across U.S. forests". 8/12/2014
2014 Gordon Research Conference & Seminar: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. "Do more niches or better niches promote species richness? Insight from local and regional drivers of lichen diversity across U.S. forests". 7/20/2014 and 7/23/2014
2011 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Opposing mechanisms drive diversity patterns of core and occasional bird species". 8/12/2011
2008 Colorado College Mathematics Department Student Distinction Presentations. "The effects of fire in Ponderosa pine forests: some examples of mathematics in forest ecology". 4/3/2008
Posters
2023 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Impact of large-scale bioblitzes on public awareness of lichens: insights from five years of the City Nature Challenge." 8/6/2023
2022 Botany 2022 - Plants at the Extreme! "Environmental constraints on the geographic distribution of a lichen host and a putative parasite." 7/27/2022
2017 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. "Lichen-associated microorganisms as subjects of course-based undergraduate research in community ecology." 8/8/2017
2015 International Biogeography Society Meeting. "Is environmental heterogeneity a driver of species richness at local and regional scales? A comparison of lichen families across North American forests." 1/9/2015
2014 Gordon Research Conference & Seminar: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. "Do more niches or better niches promote species richness? Insight from local and regional drivers of lichen diversity across U.S. forests". 7/23/2014
2013 UNC Department of Biology Research Symposium. "Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities". 5/16/2013