I am originally from Jacksonville, FL and got my B.S. at the University of Florida.  I fell in love with birds as a kid in my backyard.  Through my undergraduate education and a few years of field work I decided to focus my research on using birds as study systems to answer ecological questions.  I am broadly interested in landscape ecology, movement and migration patterns, and climate change impacts.  While at the University of Texas I will be studying Green Jays in Southern Texas.  I’m interested in this population’s genetic lineage, community structure, and causes of range expansion.