ABOUT ME
I'm currently a PhD student in Dr. Rem Moll's Wildlife Modeling and Management lab at the University of New Hampshire.
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Beginning in fall 2022, I joined the Wildlife Modeling and Management lab as a PhD student. My work focuses on investigating the community ecology of carnivores and their prey across gradients of urbanization and anthropogenic influence and I am supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
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After completing my MS in Environmental Biology at Regis University in 2018, I accepted a position in the Animal Welfare and Research Department at Denver Zoo as a Behavioral Research Associate. I studied changes in Asian elephant social behaviors in a herd of five unrelated males. My research focused on social behaviors during the introduction of two new males into the existing group. We worked to investigate the relationship between numerous hormones and social interactions throughout the introductory period. My primary responsibilities included behavioral data collection, laboratory sample preparation, data organization, statistical analyses, and writing.
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I also worked as a Term Affiliate Faculty Member in the Biology Department at Regis University. I taught biology and environmental science courses, including lecture and laboratory courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate level. My primary responsibility was the Introduction to Environmental Science lecture and laboratory courses. Previously, I taught 1-2 courses per semester at Regis University during the 2018-2019 academic year, and at Santa Fe Community College during the 2016-2017 academic year.
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I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and attended the University of New Mexico for my BS in Biology. My undergraduate research focused on using stable isotopes to examine anthropogenic food resource use in urban coyotes from the Chicago, IL area.