Restoration ecology and range management in drylands
Greetings! I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, located in the beautiful Sonoran Desert. Currently, I am a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and member of the Gornish Lab in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. My research focuses on restoration of degraded lands and invasive plant species management. I aim to provide practitioners with research insights to make data-informed management decisions. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona in 2019, and worked as a Research Specialist for the UArizona Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining prior to beginning graduate school.
Awards
2024 Outstanding Scholarly Achievement by a Student
2023 UArizona Senior Data Science Ambassador
2022 UArizona Data Science Ambassador
2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
2019 UArizona Superfund Research Program Trainee
2019 Department of Environmental Science Outstanding Senior
2018 American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellow
Education
PhD candidate, 2020 - present
Natural Resource Management, with emphasis in Ecology, Management, and Restoration of Rangelands and minor in Data Science
Advisor: Dr. Elise Gornish
University of Arizona
Bachelor of Science, 2019
Environmental Science, with minors in Sustainable Plant Systems and East Asian Studies
University of Arizona