Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Queensland, Australia
I am an ecologist at the University of Queensland currently working with John Dwyer and Margie Mayfield. I am originally from Iowa and recieved my doctorate, supervised by Monica Geber, at Cornell University in 2020. My work in ecology specializes on field applications of diversity maintenance theory in mediterranean annual flowering plant communities. Empirically, my work centers on testing how spatial variation and pollination dynamics affect plant demographic performance. Theoretically, my work probes the feeback loops between theoretical narratives and empirical applications to see the natural world differently. My future work will be focusing on what I've been provisionally calling speculative ecology as a master's student in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. My pronouns are she/her and I love a good chat.