Before Augustana

Prior to starting as an Assistant Professor I worked as an ecologist with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute in the Application Centre on the ERM project, which is establishing a program to evaluate ecological recovery of oil and gas well sites after they have been certified reclaimed.

I was a co-instructor of BIOL 332: Community Ecology at the University of Alberta for the Fall 2013 and Winter 2013 semesters.

I was a sessional instructor of FOR 322: Forest Ecosystems at the University of Alberta in Fall 2011 and Fall 2012.

I worked on a NSERC CGS and Izaak Walton Killam scholarship-funded PhD in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta with Dr. Ellen Macdonald. My thesis was titled "Ecology of understory and below-ground communities in lodgepole pine forests under changing disturbance regimes." Download a PDF.

I spent three months in Fall/Winter 2010/2011 in Umea, Sweden comparing below-ground properties and processes between Swedish and Canadian forest species after I received a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement Scholarship. You can read more about my experiences by checking out my blog: http://www.canadianneinsweden.blogspot.com.

Visit the Canopy Database Project website at: http://canopy.evergreen.edu to learn more about what I did before my PhD.