Biography

I am a PhD student in the The Harvey Lab and the Ecosystem Biogeochemistry Group in School of Environmental and Forest Science at the University of Washington, and current Graduate Research Fellow with the National Science Foundation.

My research interests lie at the intersection of disturbance, landscape, and ecosystem ecology. While still in development, my PhD research will be broadly focused on carbon consequences of forest disturbance and understanding climatic controls on forest demographic processes across multiple scales. I completed an MS in Forestry at Michigan State University, where my research focused on software development for the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis program and estimation of broad-scale demographic consequences of forest disturbance and climate for top western tree species.

I am also the lead author and maintainer of rFIA, an R package designed to unlock the national Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) database in R. Check out our website for more information, tutorials, and documentation on rFIA. You can also find us on CRAN and GitHub, and in a recent article in Environmental Modeling and Software. For bug reports or feature requests, please see our active issues page.