I am a community ecologist who seeks to understand how shifting disturbance regimes create novel environmental settings for ecosystem recovery. I largely focus on dynamics surrounding foundation species, and how their remnant structures that persist after disturbance (known as material legacies) can affect properties of resilience. I use a combination of field experiments, quantitative modeling, remote sensing, and data science to understand how the material legacies of foundation species shape the trajectories of the ecosystems they inhabit.

I received my B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2015, where I worked as a research diver assisting in research to study dynamics of rockfish dispersal in kelp forest systems and collected monitoring data with the Partnership for the Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans. Later, I got my PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2024. During my graduate studies, I spent much of my time conducting field research in French Polynesia with the NSF-funded Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project.

Now, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) based at the University of Colorado, Boulder. There, I have expanded my research on material legacy effects to other ecosystems, both marine and terrestrial, across different LTER sites that span the tropics to the Arctic Circle.  ​