I have presented my research at a number of conferences and events throughout my undergraduate and graduate career. These experiences have helped me hone my skills in communicating conservation through making my work available to a diverse audience.

In the winter of 2017 I gave a poster presentation at the New York Society of American Foresters Conference in Syracuse, NY on research I had completed the previous summer and fall with Geoffrey Griffiths and Dr. Gregory McGee. We quantified beetle diversity in residual and post-agricultural forests in central New York to determine if a difference arises as a result of land-use history. 

View the full poster here.

In the spring of 2018 I presented on my research investigating seed dispersal as a limitation to understory plant reestablishment in post-agricultural forests at two conferences. The first was an oral presentation at the Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, Vermont, titled "Can Disruption of an Ant–Plant Mutualism Explain Lack of Recovery of Forest Herbs in Post-agricultural Forests of New York?". It was a pleasure to present my work at an excellent conference to some of the most well-respected naturalists in the northeast. The second was also an oral presentation at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference at SUNY Oneonta in Oneonta, New York. Presenting at this gathering of all students within the SUNY system performing mentored research is another opportunity I am very grateful for. 

View the presentation slides here.

In July of 2018, I was invited to give a field walk as a biologist at the Montpelier BioBlitz hosted by the North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont. Here I led a field walk on myrmecochory in Hubbard Park as well as contributed to the over 4,000 observations collected by biologists at the BioBlitz. 

In December 2020, I was invited by the North Branch Nature Center to provide a webinar on herbaceous plant communities in the northeastern United States. You can view the recorded webinar here.

Most recently, I presented the first chapter of my PhD dissertation, where I used remotely sensed imagery to identify areas of minimal forest recovery 30 years after the 1988 Yellowstone Fires, at the North American Regional Association of the ​International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-North America).

View the presentation recording here (beginning at 1:01:45).