I am a Ph.D. ecologist with a passion for understanding how organisms interact with their environment. My work focuses on invertebrate biodiversity, community ecology, forest ecology, and ecosystem processes, combining field research, taxonomy, laboratory analyses, and statistical modeling in R.

My research has taken me from temperate forests and wetlands in Ohio to tropical montane forests in Costa Rica. I have experience conducting biodiversity surveys, identifying aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates and plants, studying forest communities and ecosystem processes, plant chemical and physical traits, investigating decomposition and plant–invertebrate interactions, analyzing ecological data, and managing large datasets.

I am especially interested in invertebrate taxonomy, plant and forest ecology, environmental monitoring, and understanding the ecological patterns that shape biological communities and ecosystem function. I enjoy applying ecological science beyond the research setting through conservation, natural resource management, and science communication.

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