Ecology and conservation biology.
A young Grasshopper Sparrow surveys its hayfield habitat in central New Jersey, USA.
About me
I’m a scientist with a PhD in Ecology & Evolution and a passion for environmental monitoring, conservation, and sustainability. My work leverages data science and molecular tools, underpinned by ecological theory, to seek innovative solutions for monitoring biodiversity and planning for global change. Read more about my Research here →.
In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my kids, hiking, skiing, camping, birding, botanizing, growing food, and playing music. I also like coding. See that section above for hopefully useful things related to my research and conservation data visualization.
Feel free to contact me regarding collaboration or my consulting work, which I perform under Tsuga Biodiversity Insights LLC. See email below.
A ‘meta-model’ showing potential causal relationships among factors affecting Grasshopper Sparrow populations. Icons in the figures are from The Noun Project (Anton, S. Demushkin, G. Furtado, Hamish, Humantech, P. Rozenberg). See the paper that this model comes from here.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
— G. Bernard Shaw, Playwright
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