I grew up in Michigan and spent a lot of time on the water. I moved to Montana in 2008, worked in a Freshwater Ecology lab with Dr. Wyatt Cross, and graduated with a degree in Ecology from Montana State University. Afterward, I worked on the Guppy Project in Trinidad and Tobago. In summer 2015, I joined the Carey Lab at Virginia Tech as a research intern and was a graduate student in the Carey Lab until fall 2020. I was then a dual appointed postdoc with Virginia Tech and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York. Currently, I am a postdoc associate with Washington State University and a NEON Ambassador. Broadly, my research explores how carbon cycling in freshwater lakes and reservoirs are changing as a result of changes in land use and climate. More specifically, I integrate whole ecosystem experiments, modeling, and ecological forecasting to better understand water quality and greenhouse gas emissions from the water surface. A lot of the data from my work is published in the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) or the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON). When I am not in the lab or field I am trail running, biking, and or kayaking.