About

I completed my undergraduate degree in Natural Resource Management with a concentration in Fisheries and Aquatic Biology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. While at TTU, I worked with Dr. Allison Pease and Dr. Kelbi Delaune on the Pecos River studying macroinvertebrate communities.

After finishing undergrad, I moved to Huntsville, TX to pursue a Masters of Science in Biology at Sam Houston State University. During my M.Sc., I worked with Dr. Amber Ulseth on linking changes in land use and precipitation to stream ecosystem metabolism in sub-tropical Texas coastal streams.

After my time at SHSU, I knew I wanted to continue my research on ecosystem metabolism, so I joined Dr. Erin Seybold’s lab at the Kansas Geological Survey as a Ph.D. student for the Aquatic Intermittency effects on Microbiomes in Streams (AIMS) project, working on quantifying the metabolic regimes of intermittent streams.