Research & Internships

University of Florida

GIS/Remote Sensing Research Associate, 08/25 – Present

• Full-time, 40 hrs/wk, PI: Dr. Victoria Donovan

• Investigated the role of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands in altering wildfire risk in the US Great Plains using geospatial data

Graduate Assistant, University of Florida, Milton, FL, 08/16/2023 – 08-15-2025

• Part-time, 20 hrs/wk, PI: Dr. Victoria Donovan

• Investigated wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) of the Eastern Temperate Forest Ecoregion of the US using geospatial data

USDA Agricultural Research Services

Rangeland Fire & Grazing Ecology Intern 05/23 – 08/23

• Full-time, PI: Drs. Devan McGranahan & Carissa Wonkka

• Investigated the effects of wildfire on rangeland ecology and herbivory

United States Forest Service

Fire and Recreation Intern, 01/23 – 05/23

• Full-time, Supervisor: Shane Sturgill

• Wildland firefighting, use of prescribed burns in conservation projects, trail maintenance, hand tool and saw use

University of Cincinnati

Research Assistant, 05/22 – 01/23

• Full-time, PI: Dr. Donald Lynch

• Investigated changes in platelet function following transcatheter valve interventions (TAVR/TMVR) using flow/spectral cytometry, confocal, super-resolution, and transmission electron microscopy, Western blotting, MACS, cell culture, and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

Northern Kentucky University

Undergraduate Research Assistant, 05/21 – 5/2022

• Part-Time, PI: Dr. Allison Parker

• Investigated the effects of nutrient concentration and water volume on oviposition choice in female Culex mosquitoes using two semi-controlled field assays involving larval and adult mosquito identification to species, mosquito trapping, and collection methods

Undergraduate Research Assistant, 02/20 – 09/20

• Part-time, PI: Dr. Lauren Williamson 

• Investigated the effects of maternal helminths on offspring neuroinflammation, response to neonatal infection, and learning in adulthood using stereology, microscopy, and cell culture