Biologist and Conservationist

Currently, I am an American Association for the Advancement of Science- Science and Technology Fellow at the Department of Defense serving with the U.S. Army in the Secretariat for Installations, Energy, and Environment. Recently, I was a lecturer at California State University- Long Beach teaching Invertebrate Zoology and postdoctoral researcher in the Halanych Lab at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington conducting research on Antarctic invertebrate ecology and evolution. 

I enjoy investigating how animals have adapted and evolved to cope with environmental stressors, and am interested in studying these responses at all levels of scale, from genes to geographic distributions. Identifying changes in genomes and historic ranges of animals has given me a broad understanding of how animals can survive in the craziest of places, but there is still so much that can be done to help disentangle curiosities in the world.

Further, I am an avid advocate for conservation of both terrestrial and aquatic environments and their inhabitants, and hope through this to make a lasting impact on the world.