About me
As a conservation biology student at George Mason University, my ultimate goal is to one day become a field researcher, allowing me to use my passion for science and nature to better understand and help protect the natural world. I'm currently enrolled in a semester program with Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation studying wildlife ecology and conservation.
Since I was a child, I have always had a fascination with nature and understanding its intricacies. Insects are what sparked my captivation with wildlife, but since then it has grown to cover a range of taxa including fish, plants, and particularly birds. For the past six years, I have spent my summers volunteering and working at one of Virginia’s largest wildlife rehabilitation facilities, Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center. There I gained a great deal of hands-on experience with songbird species, which has considerably furthered my interest in avian ecology.
Another major area of interest to me is invasive species ecology. I find the ability of a single species to aggressively colonize foreign habitats and disrupt the entirety of an ecosystem intriguing. One day, I hope that I can use my interests to help further our understanding of species and their interactions with one another.
