I was born and raised in Vermont where I grew up “helping” my wildlife biologist father with his field work. This early exposure to the field led me to Saint Lawrence University in NY where I earned my B.S. in Conservation Biology. Following graduation, I spent 5 years picking up field jobs from Kenya, to Colorado, onto Wisconsin, and then California. I’ve worked with primates, a variety of reptiles, cranes, and spent two field seasons collecting data for a large scale terrestrial species monitoring project for CDFW.

As a grad student in the Clucas lab I am particularly interested in conservation and management. I am fortunate to be using the data I helped collect for CDFW over the past two years for my thesis. I intend to use the camera trap data that we collected across 600 sites in the Mojave Desert and Central Valley of California to examine the effects of human disturbance on the co-occurrence of predators in these ecoregions. My hope is that this research will help inform future management of these predators as well as encourage the continuation of large-scale monitoring in these ecoregions of California.