CV and Education

For my undergraduate thesis, I built an integral projection model to understand the fate of a population of Bluebunch Wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata). Check out young me trying to explain my project here.

In my MS, I developed Bayesian hierarchical models to improve abundance estimates of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). I also worked on improving gopher tortoise survey design to better account for hard to detect individuals. My full thesis can be found here.

Currently in progress! I'm working on developing a spatially explicit individual-based modeling framework to understand how songbird populations change over time. I'll be looking at songbird abundance, competition and population demography for birds marked and monitored in the Southern Appalachians.