I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!

I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

Groundwater and Remotely Sensed Phenology Reveal Vulnerability of Riparian Trees to Drought We asked how vulnerable riparian trees are to droughts, examining their water use and growing season timing and duration via groundwater data and satellite imagery. Drought shortened the growing seas...

How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beautiful start to the PhD fieldwork in Iceland

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

USDA halts funding for University of Maine programs The temporary spending pause comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut all of Maine's federal funding following an altercation with Gov. Janet Mills over allowing transgender athl...

The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...

and- academics love to tout that supporting science communicators is soo important and yeah most people don’t have the funds to commission an illustrator, but you know what you DO have the funds for? Not using AI art.

I want to be so clear here: using AI art during talks does not make them look better, it makes them look lazier.

Thesis successfully defended!

Defending my masters thesis this week!