Biography

I received my undergraduate degree from Brown University and my Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. At Cal I studied coyote vocal communication and the potential to use behavioral ecology to address coyote predation on livestock. After a post-doctoral appointment at the University of Vermont, where I used occupancy and removal models to study bird communities in the state, I joined the National Park Service in 2005 to become the program manager for the Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) in Woodstock, VT. At NETN, I worked with network staff and partners to develop long term monitoring programs for ecological indicators, including breeding landbirds, forest health, rocky intertidal, and water quality. In 2015, I became the Southeast Region Chief of Inventory & Monitoring, where I oversaw the operations of 5 NPS monitoring networks. I returned to Rhode Island in 2022 to become a regional science advisor for the NPS and the research coordinator for the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.