About Me

I have always been interested in the outdoors, but became particularly enthralled with birds and birding during my first Christmas Bird Count where I saw a Brown Creeper Certhia americana working its way up the furrows in the bark on a cottonwood tree Populus fremontii. Since that time, I have transformed my hobby into a profession, having performed bird-focused surveys and studies in the United States, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea. In 2013, I co-founded the Biodiversity Initiative to help study the ecology and biology of birds in Central Africa. I am currently an IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kansas, where I am working on ecological niche limits and niche theory, specifically within birds.