I have a B.S. in Natural Resource Ecology and Management with a concentration in Wildlife Ecology and a M.S. in Marine Biology.
I have worked with numerous animals across various taxa. My research experience includes:
- Prothonotary Warbler bird-box nest monitoring in Baton Rouge, LA
- Population estimates of Specklebelly Madtoms in Louisiana
- Population dynamic surveys of Great Whites in Mossel Bay, South Africa
- Land-based cetacean tracking surveys in Mossel Bay, South Africa
- Tidal pool invertebrate surveys in Mossel Bay, South Africa
- Shark tagging in South Africa (catsharks) and Alabama (Great Hammerhead, Sandbar sharks)
- Herp identification at Hooper Rd. Park in Baton Rouge
- Reef fish & urchin surveys in Tofo Beach, Mozambique
- Acoustic tracking and monitoring of 2 spawning aggregations of Yellowtail Parrotfish in Reef Bay, St. John, US Virgin Islands (M.S. thesis)
- A.I.-trained AUV to detect fish spawning aggregations of groupers and snappers off the shelf in St. Thomas and St. John, US Virgin Islands (current project)