Education

• Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2013
• B.A., Biology and Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Research Interests

• Plant community ecology
• Tropical ecology
• Biodiversity and climate change

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Affiliations

• Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

Awards

• NSF CAREER: Predicting functional trait variation across spatial, temporal and biological scales
• NSF Macrosystems Biology Early Career Award: Climate change and plants on unusual soils
• VCU College of Humanities & Sciences Excellence in Scholarship Award rstudio::global Diversity Scholar