Research Interests

My research interests include the ecology, physiology and evolution of life histories and the linkage of these processes to resource dynamics in ecological communities. In my current research I examine the interactions between resource dynamics at the community level with allocation patterns in individual consumers. I have explored these processes by (1) linking abiotic drivers to temporal resource dynamics in food webs; and (2) investigating how such resource variation interact with physiology to drive the evolution of reproductive trade-offs in lizards.

Approaches: field based ecology, laboratory based physiology experiments, stable isotope methodology, and modeling.

Teaching

I was an EMRGE GK-12 fellow funded by the National Science Foundation from 2006-2008. As a fellow I developed and helped to teach inquiry based science labs in 6th and 7th grade life sciences classes at Laguna Pueblo Middle School and Socorro, NM. I have also guest lectured for general vertebrate zoology, and taught labs for cell biology and human anatomy and physiology.

PhD Committee & Advisors