About Me

From growing up fishing for stripers and catfish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, camping and hiking with friends and family in the CA Northern Coast Ranges, to watching my Grandma and Dad grow just about everything in their Bay Area gardens, I developed a deep appreciation and curiosity for human connections to the natural world. I've studied everything from tropical fish behavior, intertidal snail diversity and distribution, high-mountain stream insect behavior and susceptibility to predation in the CO Rockies, water quality conditions and fish surveys throughout the California Delta, to fish health and their intestinal microbiota and macroparasite communities. The unifying theme of my research interests is trying to understand how aquatic organisms, populations, and communities respond and adapt to anthropogenic stressors in their ever-changing physical environment. Although my main mission is to teach and engage in sci-comm projects, I have broad interests in multiple subfields of biology, and like to dabble in research when I have the opportunity to :)