I am a field biologist with expertise in pollination and bee ecology, living on muwinina country in nipaluna. I am working with Invertebrates Australia to build a living database of traits data on Australia's invertebrates and to help understand what traits make invertebrates vulnerable to severe bushfires. I also do research to better understand how climate change is affecting wild bumble bee populations in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
I did my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and postdoctoral research at the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL). Over all of those years I did ecological research on bumble bees and wildflowers around the RMBL in the Colorado Rockies, on the ancestral and stolen land of the tabeguache band of the ute people. I have studied the ecology of bumble bees, phenological responses of flowering to climate change, the consequences of pollinator declines on plant populations, and how pollinator foraging behaviour affects plant pollination. Outside of work I very much enjoy natural history, bush walking and camping, riding bicycles, drawing, taking photographs, and making other things.