Researchers

I am a member of Arizona State University’s Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center, where I serve as the project manager of the National Ecology Observatory Network Biorepository at Arizona State University’s Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center. There my role is to facilitate a wide variety of research spanning ecology, evolution, and environmental science. I obtained my PhD from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 2018. There my work focused on the eco-evolutionary consequences of interactions between species, particularly the ecology and evolution of the Sonoran Desert native plant, desert mistletoe (Phoradendron californicum) and its interactions with host plants, insect pollinators, and seed dispersers (primarily Phainopepla nitens). Outside of work, I am passionate about borderlands issues affecting the Sonoran Desert’s human and ecological communities.