I like to describe myself as a serial field tech who is finally going to graduate school. Since completing my bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University in 2020, I have worked 12 different field jobs all over the globe. Highlights include bird banding in the nonbreeding season in Belize, tracking antswarm-following birds in Panama, monitoring critically-endangered honeycreepers on Kaua’i, and raptor banding in Wisconsin.
I am finally ready and excited to settle down in Athens to work on my master’s degree in the Chandler and Rushing Population Ecology Labs. I am studying the genetic aspects of conservation in trailing edge populations of warblers in response to climate change. Working in so many different ecosystems with different threats has solidified my interest in conservation. I am also very interested in plumage and visual signaling.
Outside of the lab, I like to embroider (birds obviously), read, and get attacked by my pet pigeon, Percy.