I am an ecologist and research scientist at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering working in the Terrer lab.

I grew up in Northwest Montana and received a bachelor’s in Biology from Bowdoin College in 2011. As an undergrad, I contributed to a long-term field study of Leach’s storm-petrels on Kent Island, New Brunswick, studied wildlife conservation in East Africa, and was an REU at the Niwot Ridge LTER site.

I completed my PhD at the University of Washington in 2015 and have held positions as a postdoctoral researcher on the Ecology of Bird Loss Project, as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), and as a faculty fellow in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University. I have taught ecology, field skills, and quantitative methods and mentored many students for independent research.

My study species and systems have included birds and trees in the Mariana Islands, plants on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, chilies from Bolivia, and various digital abstractions of vertebrates and plants globally.