About Me
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I am a botanist generally interested in understanding the intersection between plants and people with a strong focus on the human impacts to botanical biodiversity, from ferns to weeds to trees. My research utilizes a combination of fieldwork, historical research, and herbarium collections—both historic and contemporary—as tools to answer botanical questions that span large temporospatial scales. I am particularly interested in the establishment and spread of historical nonnatives and the impacts that humans have had and continue to have on plant distributions.
I am currently pursuing my PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Rutgers University - New Brunswick with Dr. Lena Struwe and Dr. Myla Aronson. I also work extensively with the Chrysler Herbarium, especially with institutions' collection of Ferns and Lycophytes and in the training and management of interns. I have worked with Dr. Jason Grabosky on developing guidelines for municipal tree inventories and assessing the accuracy of photo-based plant identification apps on tree species common to the Northeastern US. |
Collecting an herbarium specimen of an early-emerging weed
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