I am a first year PhD student at YSE in the Skelly lab interested in land use impacts and restoration of freshwater systems. I completed my M.S. in Biology at James Madison University in 2022, then participated in two terms with NASA DEVELOP assessing sedimentation in the Chesapeake Bay and urbanization in central California. I then worked as a research associate for the Map of Life project in the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change managing large datasets, developing global indicators, and collaborating with external partners.