I recently completed my PhD with Dr. Jennifer Williams in the Department of Geography and the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. I’m a plant population ecologist (although previously I have worked with small mammals and birds).
I’m broadly interested in understanding the demographic processes underlying population responses to changes in precipitation and temperature. My research interests also include informing conversation efforts of rare species and ecosystems with demographic modeling.
My PhD examined how life-history trade-offs (costs of reproduction; investment between clonal and sexual reproduction), conspecific neighbors, and density of invasive plant neighbors interact with climate drivers to influence plant demography and population persistence. I looked at these processes in native forbs and invasive grasses within a rainfall manipulation experiment in Garry Oak meadows on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Outside of work, I’m an avid knitter, trail runner, baker, and gardener.
