I am the Research and Conservation Project Coordinator at Tyson Research Center, which is the environmental field station of Washington University in St. Louis. I collect and curate data for long-term flora and fauna monitoring projects at Tyson and in the greater St. Louis region. My background is in plant physiology and temperate forest community ecology.

Plants are my first love, and I've been stopping to smell the roses (and many other, less conspicuous, flowers) of the Midwest for years. I also love learning about all things nature, from spiders to fungi!