restoration ecology

I study the North American tallgrass prairie. It's a native ecosystem that once covered a huge swath of the country, from Michigan to the Dakotas to Texas — and it's almost entirely gone today. Luckily, for the past few decades, more and more people have been working on restoring these important communities to our modern landscape. But this can be a struggle: Native plant species sometimes resist establishment, and invasive plant species sometimes take over. In my research, I'm interested in: Why? Why do some restorations turn out great, and others don't? Can we predict success — and one day, could we guarantee it?

For my graduate work, I studied in Lars Brudvig's lab in Michigan State University's Department of Plant Biology and the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior program. ​My dissertation was on how weather conditions at the outset of a restoration project could cause significant variation in outcomes (or "year effects"). 

For a complete list of my academic work, including publications, please see my CV.
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