About Me
I'm currently working on my Ph.D. at Montana State University, under Wyatt Cross. My dissertation research is based in Iceland, where we work as part of a multi-university collaborative group studying effects of temperature and nutrients on stream ecosystems.
I earned my M.S. in 2015 from Tennessee Tech University, where I studied algal productivity in agriculturally-influenced oxbow lakes in Mississippi. Prior to my master's research, I worked as a field technician studying damselfly sexual selection and speciation in Mexico, and as a study abroad program assistant in Costa Rica.
During my undergraduate years at the University of Pittsburgh, I worked as a lab technician and eventual REU student with Rick Relyea's aquatic ecology lab, where on I worked on projects including species coexistence in amphipods, ecotoxicology, phenotypic plasticity, and community ecology.
In my free time, I enjoy hiking, traveling, horseback riding, and reading anything and everything I can get my hands on.