Experience

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Rare Plant Biologist

  • Mar 2016 - Present

  As the Garden's Rare Plant Biologist, I manage the Garden's rare plant conservation program. Our team focuses on understanding, protecting and restoring California's rare plants from the Channel Islands to the Central Coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and beyond. Our methods include field surveys and mapping, demography, conservation seed banking, seed germination studies, nursery propagation and research, and in-situ restoration, augmentation and reintroduction. We work with collaborators to answer questions from the level of genes to ecosystems, including phylogenetic questions and pollinator interactions, all in the service of rare plant recovery. We are active members of California Plant Rescue and the Center for Plant Conservation. Show less



UC Santa Barbara

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral scholar

  • Jan 2013 - Feb 2016

  Project Baseline - creating a research seed bank to study evolution in response to environmental change. www.baselineseedbank.org Project Baseline - creating a research seed bank to study evolution in response to environmental change. www.baselineseedbank.org



U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ecologist

  • 2010 - 2012

  Desert tortoise health, movement, and survivorship. Ft. Irwin desert tortoise translocation project, Edwards Air Force Base desert tortoise head start program, invasion patterns of Brassica tournefortii, etc. Desert tortoise health, movement, and survivorship. Ft. Irwin desert tortoise translocation project, Edwards Air Force Base desert tortoise head start program, invasion patterns of Brassica tournefortii, etc.



University of California, Riverside

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • 2006 - 2010

  Courses taught: Spring Wildflowers, California's Cornucopia, Plants and Human Affairs Courses taught: Spring Wildflowers, California's Cornucopia, Plants and Human Affairs



Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia

• Intern

  • Jun 2004 - Aug 2004

  Performed vegetation and rare plant surveys Participated in small mammal trapping and monitoring Performed water sampling and salinity testing Created and organized educational materials for local schools and public outreach programs Cataloged and mounted herbarium specimens, created an on-site electronic herbarium database, and supplemented online government database Participated in field surveys as part of the Endangered Western Ground Parrot Recovery Project Performed vegetation and rare plant surveys Participated in small mammal trapping and monitoring Performed water sampling and salinity testing Created and organized educational materials for local schools and public outreach programs Cataloged and mounted herbarium specimens, created an on-site electronic herbarium database, and supplemented online government database Participated in field surveys as part of the Endangered Western Ground Parrot Recovery Project