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Through research, biological field stations, and science policy, I work to better understand and conserve our planet’s biodiversity and natural environments.
I am a behavioral ecologist interested in the drivers, consequences, and evolution of social behavior. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with the Blumstein Lab at UCLA, my dissertation is on the consequences and evolution of social group structure. I use a population of yellow-bellied marmots studied since 1962 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL), where I am a Graduate Fellow, to ask these questions. In January 2023 I will start as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Lauren Brent in the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter. I will be a part of the ERC funded FriendOrigins project studying the evolution of friendship in non-human primates. Longterm, I am interested in a career at Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) and in Science Policy. |
