About me
I am an ecologist with interests in global change impacts, methodological advances, bird conservation, population trends, and species distributions.
I currently work as a Natural Resources Specialist with the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands at Colorado State University, where I support fish and wildlife management on military installations. My work focuses on overseeing avian surveys and evaluating management objectives and plans.
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Previously, I held several postdoctoral research positions testing analytical approaches for estimating population trends and species distributions. With Drs. Peterson and Duarte, I used simulations to evaluate the ability of multi-state occupancy models to predict spatial abundance patterns and detect population trends. I used this model to look at the spatiotemporal patterns of Longfin Smelt in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. At the University of Rhode Island, I worked with Dr. Paton on the Rhode Island Bird Atlas, analyzing bird survey data to map distributions and estimate population sizes. At the University of Connecticut I worked in the Tingley and Elphick labs researching approaches to improve use of citizen science data for modeling avian species distributions (see [link] and [link]).
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My graduate work at Colorado State University with Drs. Noon and Skagen focused on climate change impacts to breeding and migrating birds in the Prairie Pothole Region, U.S.A. I examined sources of uncertainty [link] and used historical climate variability to understand bird responses to future climate change [link].