I am a biologist, photographer, artist, filmmaker, and science communicator working to explore our natural world and share it with the general public.

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I am broadly interested in reproductive behavior, marine biology, and fish. Specifically, I am interested in sexual selection, courtship behavior, and the interaction between parasites and sex. 

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I am currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, where I am studying host sex-parasite interactions and reproductive behavior in the mangrove rivulus fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). You can check more information here.

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In the past, I conducted research at Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas, in Las Cruces, Chile over several separate trips. I investigated the effects of predators on prey using an invertebrate system and fish. I also participated in various intertidal and subtidal studies including quadrat and transect surveys and specimen collections. I was also a research assistant on a field excursion to Easter Island in December 2018. Because of my experience in Chile, I am proficient in Spanish.

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From May 2019-July 2020, I worked as a STEM Outreach Facilitator for the GSK Science in the Summer program at the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro, TN, and was also a museum educator.

 

I shoot both analog/film and digital photography. Any photograph that you see on my website was taken by me unless otherwise stated (yes, even the photos of me!). I photograph anything from landscapes to people to concerts. I am also an artist and my preferred medium is watercolor. I am a massive Star Wars and Dune nerd, and have received PR lightsabers and Dune Prophecy PR! I love to cook and bake, and I adore thrifting. I also somewhat recently got into gaming and play mostly on a PlayStation 5 but recently got into Nintendo Switch gaming (fun fact, I won first place in a digital photography contest for Jedi: Survivor!). My co-researchers are a male mini-lop bunny named Juniper and a female rescue cat named Ophelia.

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