I earned my PhD in the DuRant Lab at the University of Arkansas in 2025 and am currently an Instructor at Arkansas teaching Comparative Physiology and Principles of Biology. I am continuing to work with Dr. DuRant and am broadly interested in the effects of environmental temperature on wildlife behavior and physiology.

 

As a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UArk, I monitored nesting of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) and Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) in a 200 box nest box system to determine how changes in natural thermal variability affect parental care and offspring phenotypes. My completed work is currently under review for publication.

 

My undergraduate work focused on how climate change will impact the breeding behavior of the dung beetle Phanaeus vindex, and I contributed to a project investigating the breeding behavior of Lathrotriccus grisceipectus, a rare flycatcher in Ecuador. This work was done in the Sheldon Lab at the University of Tennessee.