I am interested in how environmental cycles and landform features interact to mediate animal behavior and influence the efficacy of conservation actions. For my PhD, I designed a field experiment and an observational study to elucidate movement and predation dynamics of tidal wetland fishes. I then integrated these findings into a habitat suitability model, intended to help optimize restoration design for fishes across a variety of coastal wetlands ecosystems. I hope to continue applied research in this realm.

As a postdoc in the CWS–USBOR Water Training Program (Center for Watershed Sciences – U.S. Bureau of Reclamation), I seek to understand how physical and environmental factors, along with water export operations, influence the movement ecology and survival outcomes of juvenile salmon in the California Delta. I look forward to gleaning these insights from archival acoustic telemetry and other relevant datasets. Ultimately, I seek to help align flow management actions with fish behavior tendencies to maximize emigration survival for imperiled Central Valley salmon.