Education

University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography Department (Ph.D. in progress)

Dissertation Research: Avian community response to broad-scale ecological disturbances across spruce-fir forests of southwestern Colorado

University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography Department (M.A. 2011)

Thesis Research: Presence of the exotic weevil (Rhinocyllus conicus Fröelich) at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (Published 2014)

University Of California, Los Angeles, Geography Department: (B.A. 2007, Departmental Honors, Deans List)

Thesis Research: Population Decline of the Island Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus anthonyi) in the Northern California Channel Islands (Published 2009)

Controlled introduction experiment. Mating weevil pairs were introduced to treeline to see if they could survive at an elevation where they currently do not exist.

Searching for shrikes on Santa Cruz Island during a particularly wet rainy season.

Collecting forest data in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. This is part of our research to quantify the effects of logging on host tree susceptibility to spruce beetle outbreaks.

An expert birder surveying bird diversity in the San Juans near Rico, Colorado.

Point count data sheets.

An Engelmann spruce pitch tube attempting to stop a spruce beetle from attacking

Post Doc C. Temperli and J. Hicks at one of the field sites in the San Juan Mountains, CO.