I enjoy providing fun educational opportunities to think broadly about science and our impact on the environment! A few examples:

• Exhibitor at Virginia Tech Science Festival (2018, 2019, 2022), providing interactive educational exhibit to teach school-age children about the importance of land use on stream water quality

• Exhibitor at Flip the Fair, a science fair where graduate students are judged on their research by elementary school students. We developed a poster about how you can predict the future of lakes!

• Co-founder and organizer of the Blacksburg Food Cycle, a bike-based food drive to collect donations for local food security charities. Over three years, we've collected >2,000 pounds of food, all delivered by bike!

I joined the Ecological Forecasting Initiative's Student Association as one the first cohort of student co-chairs with a desire to help other early career members of the ecological forecasting community share ideas and provide support.

Through my tenure from 2019-2022, I helped lead monthly meetings, organize and deliver of annual workshops, and developed a collaborative, student-led publication on training yourself in an emerging field together with fellow co-chairs and students of EFI.

• EFISA workshops: As one of the co-chairs of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative Student Association (EFISA) I co-developed and led several early career training workshops in ecological forecasting from 2020-2022. Information about the 2021 Workshop focused on the EFI NEON Forecasting Challenge can be found here . Code resources from the workshop can be found here.

• 10 simple rules for training yourself in an emerging field: find the publication here.

My goal is to produce actionable science that has real connections with communities for solving real-world problems. As a result, a major component of my research has involved collaborations with a number of partners to develop applied scientific projects

• Western Virginia Water Authority: through Dr. Cayelan Carey's research program at Virginia Tech, our work strives to help inform drinking water reserovir management. We provide semi-annual presentation on the past year's research

• Lake Sunapee Protective Association: as a recipient of the Calhoun Fellowship, which aims to support research in the Lake Sunapee basin, I have helped to establish a forecasting system at Lake Sunapee, maintain sensor networks, develop relationships with community members, and produce user-friendly visualizations