Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Montana and specialize in Western white-tailed deer and their predators. I lived and worked for three years in Mexico at the Colegio de Postgraduados where I worked with colleagues to understand jaguar habitat preferences and land use change. With family, lands and colleagues in both countries, I couldn’t be more excited for a group that represents the intersectionality of the wildlife community.
I am currently working on a collaborative predator-prey ecology project in North Idaho with white-tailed deer as the focal species. I am interested in population dynamics, multi-species integrated population modeling, and the impact of land use and management on fluctuating populations in a 5-predator system. My previous work focused on land use change in Mexico and its impacts on jaguars and conservation efforts in protected and urban environments. I grew up in California but have spent the last 20 years moving across the country working with predators and prey until I found my way down to Mexico, living in the high desert, working in the semi-tropical lowlands with cattle ranchers and protected areas. I have now worked within both systems with very different species and conservation/management goals. I look forward to fostering a place for community, conversation and opportunity.
