Research Interests

I earned my PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where I studied the causes of species diversity patterns in urban, fragmented ecosystems around the globe. This work was part of my broader interest in the spatial ecology of species’ interactions with their environments, and in using the computational tools that are now available to analyze the causes of ecological patterns in nature. 


I am currently a quantitative ecologist at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), where I process and analyze continental-scale ecological data that will be used by scientists worldwide to better understand the responses of species and ecosystems to such disturbances as climate and land-use change.