Red Tree Voles!
Oregon Coast Range – 10/2022
Small-mammal communities at Sagehen Creek Experimental Forest
Sierra Nevada – 8/2021
Avian and carnivore diversity in the Caples Watershed
Sierra Nevada – 8/2020
Wildfires are a natural part of forest lifecycles in the western United States, helping recycle nutrients, diversify forest structure, and even germinate seeds. However, climate change and a history of post-colonial fire suppression has resulted in increasingly large and destructive fires. To make forests more resilient to these destructive events, forest managers are increasingly... Read More
Host-symbiont relationships in tropical understory birds
Papua New Guinea – 8/2019
Ectosymbionts, from microscopic blood parasites to skin and feather mites, are hidden hitchhikers on every bird. Often overlooked, there is a lot we don’t understand about the relationship between these passengers and their hosts. In 2019 I traveled to Papua New Guinea with collaborators... Read More
Giraffe herd behavior in the Tarangire-Manyara
Tanzania – 6/2019
In 2019, I traveled to Tanzania with an Earlham study abroad program focused on animal behavior and conservation in the Tarangire region. Located in northern Tanzania, the greater Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem includes some of Tanzania’s best known wildlife hotspots... Read More