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Ph.D., Ecology, Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis

Dissertation: "Elevational movement ecology and habitat associations of birds across the Great Basin." Advisor: Erica Fleishman

B.A., Biology, Magna Cum Laude, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

Undergraduate Thesis: "The continuum of sex determination: transition between sex determining mechanisms in non-avian reptiles." Advisor: Mark McKone

Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

• Teaching: Designed and taught courses in statistics, data science, and environmental studies
• Research: Assessing abundance estimation with statistical models and management techniques of wildlife populations using emerging technology
• Mentorship of six statistics and data science undergraduate students through the Center for Integrative Research, including a publication in review with multiple student co-authors
• Mentorship of six undergraduate research assistants, assisting with research on camera trap data collection, data cleaning, and statistical model development
• Academic advisor for student's individual major in Bioinformatics

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Montana

Department of Forestry and Conservation. Advisor: Paul Lukacs

• Research: Development of quantitative methods to estimate demographic rates of wildlife populations using camera trap data, simulation studies employing random walk algorithms
• Teaching: Instructor of upper-level course Conservation of Wildlife Populations
• Mentorship of undergraduate research technicians; served as quantitative advisor for two wildlife biology master's students

Statistical Consultant, The Nature Conservancy

Estimated density of unmarked Island Foxes (Urocyon littoralis) from camera trap data using novel statistical methods, and developed a conservation monitoring strategy currently in use

Postdoctoral Researcher, Joint position with University of California, Davis and Oregon State University

Advisor: Erica Fleishman

Research and development of a drone-based telemetry platform for tracking birds in remote locations

Leader in statistical and programming literacy

University of California, Davis and University of Montana

• Founder and leader, University of Montana R Users Group (2022–2023)
• Instructor of R-DAVIS, a graduate-level introduction to R (2019–2020)
• Co-leader, Davis R Users Group, UC Davis (2017–2021)
• Founder, statistical modeling group, Graduate Group in Ecology (Winter 2019–Fall 2022)
• Data Carpentries certified instructor

Federal Aviation Administration-Certified Drone Pilot

Applications of drones to tracking wild animals

Professional Development Grant: R Workshop for Faculty and Staff Development — $6,800

Minimum Viable Product Challenge Grant, University of Minnesota — $3,000

Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) Grant, St. Olaf — $2,000

William J. Hamilton III Memorial Fund Scholarship, Hamilton Community Foundation — $2,000

Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat, The Garden Club of America — $4,500

Summer Award for Upper Level Division and Graduate Students, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University — $3,000

Graduate Group in Ecology Fellowship, University of California, Davis — $12,000 (2018), $12,700 (2021)

Henry A. Jastro Research Fellowship, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis — $2,000 (2017), $3,000 (2018), $2,000 (2019)

Instructor of Record, St. Olaf College

• Data Science 1 (SDS 164), 2023–present
• Statistics 1 (SDS 172), 2023–present
• Principles of Statistics (STATS 110), 2023–2024
• Conservation Biology (BI/ES 226), 2024–2026
• Biodiversity Foundations [with Lab] (BIO 150), Fall 2026
• Pyroecology (ENVST 381), Spring 2026

Instructor of Record, University of Montana

Conservation of Wildlife Populations (WILD 470)

Instructor of Record, University of California, Davis

R-DAVIS: R Data Analysis and Visualization in Science (ECL 250)

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis

• Ecological Principles and Applications (ECL 200A), 2017
• Environmental Analysis (ESP 001), 2017
• Public Lands Management (ESP 172), 2018

St. Olaf College — Undergraduate Students

Emma Coen-Pesch, Elise Hachfeld, Mitch Ardolf, Sam Song, Grace Kosieradzki, Grace Nelson, Hannah Hampton, Gracia Larsen-Schmidt, Sophie Kormann, Ollie Blundred, Signe Aleckson, Elliot Norton-Bower, Kenna Brant, Sofie Hamilton, Eugene Kiepeeh

University of Montana

Undergraduate Student: Marian Cook. Master's Student: Diandra Lewis (quantitative advisor, Wildlife Biology)

Oregon State University

Master's Student: Emir Gocke (quantitative advisor, Fisheries and Wildlife Science)

St. Olaf College

• Received a Professional Development grant to run an R Workshop for faculty and staff; planned and implemented the workshop in June 2026, focused on an introduction to R and pedagogy of R in the classroom
• Writing in the Statistics and Data Science Major Curriculum Development Workshop — developed curriculum for the writing-in-the-major requirement for the new Statistics and Data Science major
• Assisted with proposal and then implementation of new Statistics and Data Science Major
• Organized weekly Colloquium speaker for the MSCS department
• Advised first-year students

Kids into Discovering Science (KiDS)

Graduate student-run nonprofit teaching place-based ecology to underrepresented, elementary-age children

• President, 2018–2021
• Weekly teaching volunteer in a fifth-grade classroom
• Coordinator and volunteer of Field Day, a field trip that culminated the program each year
• Responsible for organization of the program, management of volunteers, and coordination of Field Day