My Projects
Alpine Plant Community Assembly
How did alpine plants come to exist in these extreme environments? I am interested in using phylogenies to test biogeographical hypotheses for how alpine plant communities came to be.
2021 - Present
Mapping Museum Collections
Check out a web app we built to map the collections at the Museum of Southwestern Biology! Explore and filter collections by division, taxa, and collection year.
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2022
Diversification of Hawaiian Cyrtandra
It's incredible that so many plant species were able to find their way to the extremely isolated islands of Hawaii and quickly evolved into so many species. While at WSU, I used next-gen data to (try to) unravel species relationships within the Hawaiian Cyrtandra.
2016 - 2018
Purgatory Plant Anomalies
I looked at plant species whose Purgatory (CO) populations were odd compared to other widespread populations. This project got me hooked on plants and phylogenetics!
2014 - 2016
