More about me
I am a plant ecologist interested in the impact of global change on the ecological processes that shape plant populations and communities. I am particularly excited about using creative statistical and computational approaches to answer questions and communicate about data and results with managers, conservationists, and the public.
What do I do?
I am currently a Postdoctoral scientist at the University of Wyoming as part of both the Weiss-Lehman lab group and the Modelscape consortium. I’m working on a modeling framework to incorporate interspecific effects into structured population models, and also contribute to collaborative projects that improve our ability to model ecological time series.
I recieved my PhD in Ecology from the University of Wyoming in the Program in Ecology and Evolution and the Botany Department, where I worked with Dr. Daniel Laughlin. My doctoral research investigated how environmental variation across space and time drives plant demographic processes, with a specific focus on how plant leaf and root traits mediate the effect of drought on demographic rates in western grass-dominated ecosystems. I also developed an R package to translate maps of plant occurrence into growth, survival, reproduction, and competition data for further analysis. You can find more about my research projects here.
Here’s my CV
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Using Overleaf as a Scientific Collaborator
Is a coauthor on a manuscript asking for your feedback on a manuscript they created on Overleaf? Do you have no idea what to do next? This is a short ‘how-to’ guide to using Overleaf to leave feedback and comments as a collaborator. If you’re looking for comprehensive guidance for using Overleaf to author documents, this isn’t necessarily the guide for you. There are many great resources that already exist for that purpose!
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plantTracker
Find out more about the plantTracker R package, which provides user-friendly tools to translate repeatedy sampled maps of stationary organism occurrence into demographic and local neighborhood data for further analysis.
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plantTracker: An R package to translate maps of plant occurrence into demographic data
This R package was designed to transform long-term quadrat maps that show plant occurrence and size into demographic data that can be used to answer questions about population and community ecology.
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