About me

I am a research ecologist at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Manhattan KS, exploring climate drivers of arthropod-borne livestock disease spread. To tackle this I’m delving into iterative forecasting, movement ecology, and deep learning. Some of my recent work has included leveraging the Long-Term Ecological Research network to ask how climate change impacts dryland agroecosystems. My dissertation focused on how the jet stream modulates tree growth, the length of the growing season across the hemisphere, and eastern monarch butterfly migration.