Undergraduate Student

B.S., University of Michigan, Program in the Environment, 2008

As a student at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE), I worked on several projects with the National Aviary. Using GIS techniques I completed a study looking at how landscape characteristics affect the diversity and abundance of birds within the parks of Pittsburgh. I also used GIS to map streams and the surrounding riparian habitats in a study of breeding habitat characteristics of the Louisiana Waterthrush in western Pennsylvania. This became the basis for my Senior Honors Project in the Program in the Environment at SNRE.

In February 2009, I continued work on the Louisiana Waterthrush project by traveling to the Cordillera Septentrional of the Dominican Republic where I mapped streams and riparian habitat on this species’ wintering grounds. In the fall of 2009, I will join the Peace Corps working in Environmental Education.