
NE CASC Graduate Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate
Consortium Institution:
University of Massachusetts
Affiliations:
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology- Department of Environmental Conservation
Education:
B.A.: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 2017
Experience:
Research Assistant, UMass Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 2017-present
Niwot Ridge LTER Research Assistant, University of Colorado, 2016-2017
Biocrust Research Assistant and Field Technician, University of Colorado, 2016-2017
Environmental Education Intern, Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, 2015
Microbial Ecology Research Assistant, University of Colorado, 2014-2015
Research Interests:
I am interested in how patterns in invasive plant distributions can help us understand invasion processes and human involvement in the spread of invasive species at a broad scale. I’m particularly interested in the role of invasive species in structuring plant communities, how invasive species research applies to management, and how climate change influences invasive plant distributions.