My PhD research is focused on defining the broad types of terrestrial bird communities that occur across Australia. I approach this topic from a variety of perspectives, with a particular interest in how these communities vary in their distributions and compositions over time. This work continues on from my master's thesis, which aimed to predict the distributions of some of the major community types and identify how the proportional expressions of some traits (e.g., diet, movement) varied among the communities.

 

Although I have a B.S. In Wildlife and Conservation Biology from the University of New Hampshire and a M.S. in Conservation Science from the University of Queensland, my background spans a wide range of experiences. Among many other things, I volunteered for a decade with the Orange County Bird of Prey Center (a raptor rehabilitation center in southern California), worked for seven years as an environmental education with Inside the Outdoors (a division of the Orange County Department of Education that facilitates classroom and field trip educational programs for students aged 4-18) and continue to be associated with ADOPTA Panama Rainforest (a Panamanian conservation NGO).

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Primary PhD supervisor: Professor Martine Maron.