Population and Community Ecology

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School for Environmental and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan, working with Dr. Karen Alofs. I work on a project using museum specimens and a trait-based approach to disentangle the impacts of climate change from other environmental stressors on body-size across species in freshwater fish communities. I received my PhD from Florida International University (FIU) in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Aquatic Ecology Lab with Dr. Joel Trexler. 

My research interests are as an aquatic population and community ecologist who primarily studies fishes. My research focuses on how populations and communities are responding to anthropogenic stressors (e.g., climate change, hydrologic alteration, and invasive species). During my PhD at FIU, I investigated drivers of trophic dynamics in space and time such as: seasonality and habitat heterogeneity, ecosystem engineering by American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), and invasive species - particularly African Jewelfish (Rubricatochromis [formerly Hemichromis] letourneuxi).