Welcome! I recently completed a post-doc at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL where I managed a multi-study research project about tree growth in highway settings. I also spent a year as a post-doc in the Holzapfel Lab at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-Newark completing a longitudinal study of plant community composition in an urban brownfield. I completed my M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Environmental Science at Rutgers-New Brunswick with the Grabosky Urban Forestry Lab. At Rutgers I also worked as a graduate mentor in the Douglass Project for Women in Math, Science, and Engineering. Between my M.S. and Ph.D., I was a community forestry intern at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection State Forestry Services. Prior to graduate school, I worked as an environmental specialist at the Passaic River Coalition where I helped preserve undeveloped lands as open space and worked with communities on water resource issues. I received my B.S. in Earth and Environmental Science from Susquehanna University.
When I’m not science-ing, you can probably find me cooking, knitting, gardening, playing board games and RPGs, or wandering in the woods.