I grew up in Vermont and spent my summers on the Jersey Shore where I first fell in love with the ocean. But I didn't know about the wonders of seabirds until I landed my first field job working for Project Puffin on tiny rocky islands off the coast of Maine. Maybe it was holding my first black guillemot chick, or perhaps it was resighting a tern band to later learn that the bird was 10 years old, or it was maybe even dangling upside down in a rock crevice as far as possible to see if a puffin was inside while being unsure if I'd ever be able to get out. Whatever it was, that summer I fell in love with birds.

 

After traveling across the world conducting fieldwork including returning to Project Puffin and Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge, conducting research on red-winged fairywrens and wedge-tailed shearwaters in Australia, and spending a summer on Southeast Farallon Island in California studying breeding seabirds, I began my endeavors in quantitative ecology.

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After a year providing mapping, report writing, and field support at the Vermont Land Trust, I began my Master's of Science degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Working in Gail Davoron's lab, my research was based in Newfoundland where I studied the influence of prey availability on the foraging behavior and diet of common murres and razorbills with the use of GPS data and stable isotope analysis. 

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After graduating, I returned to Maine where it all began to work as a marine biologist at the Biodiversity Research Institute, a small wildlife research non-profit in Portland. For the past four years, I have developed skills in spatial analysis, environmental data management and visualization, mapping, and stakeholder engagement related to wildlife and offshore wind energy development.

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In my free time I love hiking in the White Mountains, spending time on the coast, painting and creating digital art, and cuddling my dog.