Dissertation Title: Dispersal, kinship, and genetic structure of an endangered Madagascar primate, Propithecus edwardsi
Current Employment: Northeast Climate Science Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003
My research seeks to understand the impacts of climate change on vertebrate populations in order to aid natural resource managers in developing adaptation options, both in the United States and in Africa. Currently I am using population genetic techniques, geospatial analysis, and occupancy modeling to identify climate change refugia and habitat connectivity in montane systems in the Sierra Nevada.