August 2025: I am very excited to announce that I will be a SciComm in the Park Fellow! In collaboration with The Ecological Society of America (ESA) and The National Parks Service (NPS), I will be creating two communication pieces about Estimating White-tailed Deer Numbers to support Deer Management
and Forest Resiliency in Northeast Region NPS Units! Stay tuned.
July 2025: I met up with old friends on a week-long trip to the Santa Fe Institute after we received a grant for a micro working group investigating the drivers of stability in Northern Bird communities!
August 2025: Spent a week backpacking in the Eastern Sierras for fieldwork led by Briggs lab member Cannon. We spent time checking in on Mountain Yellow-Legged frogs in the alpine ponds!
June 2025: Undergrad, Pratyush Rallapally, and I received the Worster Summer Research Fellowship! The Worster Award Fellowships supports the development of graduate and undergraduate research in ecology, evolution and/or marine biology through a mentoring program that pairs an undergraduate student with a graduate student mentor to conduct summer research.
Pratyush and I will be working on investigating the impact of drought on the amphibian parasite-parasites networks in California ponds!
February 2025: Fellow EEMB Grad students Julianna, Ruby, Erin, Piper, and I planned UCSB ‘s graduate research symposium. We added a career panel featuring UCSB alumni who are back to talk about their paths after graduating! We also welcomed new faces to the department at this event, which doubled as EEMB’s recruitment weekend!
