About

A lifelong Californian, I grew up in Orange County and moved to the Bay Area to attend UC Berkeley and frolic among the redwoods. After graduating with a degree in Conservation and Resource Studies, I traveled down the coast to sunny Santa Barbara, where I am completing my Master of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB’s Bren School. I am a passionate naturalist and ecologist, excited about collaborative land stewardship, native plants, and maps.

*Installing soil moisture data loggers with my field team*

*Helping out with fuels reduction at Russell Research Station*

*Testing burn box experiments with a PhD student at Sedgwick Reserve*

*Knee deep in ice plant conducting vegetation surveys for NASA’s SHIFT campaign at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve*

*Prescribed fire TREX at Sedgwick Reserve*

*Observing a tree felling demonstration by members of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRP)*

*Me next to a Sequoiadendron giganteum circa 2006*

*Setting a bucking saw for a logging demo*

*Teaching my field class about herpetology*

Education

Master of Environmental Science and Management

University of California, Santa Barbara

Bachelor of Science, Conservation and Resource Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Certifications

NOLS Wilderness/Remote Location First Aid

NASA ARSET Invasive Species Monitoring with Remote Sensing

NASA ARSET Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Projection with NASA Earth System Data

S-190 Wildland Fire Behavior, National Wildfire Coordinating Group

Data Analysis & Visualization

R/R Studio, GitHub, ggplot, Leaflet, Shiny, Wallace, prioritizr, bipartite

Geospatial Analysis & Remote Sensing

R, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Google Earth Engine, QGIS

Fieldwork

Coastal sage scrub plant identification, eDNA collection, insect rearing and net trapping, UTV operation, chainsaw operation and safety