If you’re here, then that means you’re probably interested in my current research, which is great! But before we talk about what I’m up to now, I wanted to tell you a little about myself. I was born and raised in the United States, and I’ve worked internationally in Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, India and Indonesia. I’ve done research in a lot of different fields, from microplastics to ecological economics to dendrochronology and even wasp phylogenetics. You can look me up on Google Scholar, if you want to read any of my published papers.
I’ve also had a lot of different jobs in food service, research, education, management and journalism. I was a high school biology teacher for almost ten years, and I’ve worked with the Smithsonian, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Amazon Conservation Team and Baltimore County Public Schools. But all of that was in the past, because right now I am a PhD student at Utah State University, where I study ecology in South Africa.
That might be a bit confusing, living in one country and working in another, but that’s common in some jobs. It all comes down to strong international relations between governments and a shared interest in science. I work with people from all over the planet who are fascinated by our natural world.
