I am a wildlife biologist interested in linking landscape characteristics up with demographics including local abundance, dispersal, and gene flow and in helping figure out ways for wildlife to coexist with humans. I started working on animal movements using telemetry techniques, but have started using genetic techniques more recently. I'm part of a large collaborative project on grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem in northwestern Montana, USA that is headed up by Kate Kendall, USGS. I'm a PhD student here at NAU working with Paul Beier, Conservation Biologist. For fun I like to hike, ski, do pretty much anything outdoors, cook, and mess around on the mandolin.