I started working at CWS in December of 2017 as a Student Assistant for John Durand, working on dissecting fish for stable isotope analysis of muscles and livers. I then moved on to the role of Junior Specialist when I graduated in 2019 from UC Davis with a bachelor's degree in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology with minors in Statistics and Geographic Information Systems. I worked as a deck hand and boat operator for John Durand's field operations while leading a project on stable isotope analysis for a food web study of Suisun Marsh. Additionally, I published kid-friendly science communication pieces with Frontiers for Young Minds, a youth-focused scientific journal, describing my work on food web stable isotope and invasive jellyfish studies.

I started graduate school at UC Davis in 2022 as a fellow of the Graduate Group in Ecology. As a Master's candidate in the Durand/Provost labs, I am leading a project funded as one of the Center's synthesis incubator projects. As a graduate student, I consider myself a wetland ecologist who spends a lot of time thinking about ecological functionality in the context of human-altered systems. My thesis work is focused on developing quantitative approaches to conduct climate vulnerability assessments, specifically through using long-term monitoring data to establish relationships between fish abundance and water quality. I source data from the Suisun Marsh Fish Study (ARC) as well as the Alviso Marsh South Bay Otter Trawl (OGFL) long-term monitoring programs. I am comparing two forms of species distribution models (SDM's) for this assessment: a machine learning approach (BRTs) and a semi-parametric approach (GAMs). More information about my work can be found here.

Outside of research, I am Co-Chair of the Center's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) committee and of the Ecology Graduate Student Association Field Safety committee.