Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
| Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, postdoctoral researcher, 2010-2012 Department of Primatology Research area: African tropical forest fruit phenology and its impacts on great apes |
| Colorado State University, postdoctoral researcher, 2009 Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Research area: Wildlife movement ecology and modeling |
| University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 2004-2008 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Dissertation Title: Ecological analysis of population density and animal location time series data Dissertation Committee: Dr. Wayne M. Getz, Dr. Perry de Valpine, Dr. Alan Hubbard |
| University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., 1998-2000 Double major: Mathematics and Environmental Studies |
INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
| Pan-African phenology trends, Wildlife Conservation Society, Uganda, 2012 |
| IV Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Almada, Portugal, 2011 |
| Continuous-time and continuous space processes in ecology, Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology, University of Warwick, England, 2010 |
Teaching
| PhD graduate student advisor for several students at the Max Planck Institute |
| Workshops at the Max Planck Institute on data analysis and presentation using R |
| Graduate student advisor at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| UC Berkeley Graduate Student Instructor, Modeling and management of biological resources |
| UC Santa Cruz math tutor, all courses of undergraduate math |
| Sierra Community College math tutor, all courses of lower division math |
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
| UC Berkeley Edward A. Steinhaus Memorial Award, 2008 |
| Honorable Mention, NSF GRF 2004, 2006 |
| College Honors Graduate in Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz, 2000 |
| UC Regents Scholar, 1998-2000 |
| President’s Honor Roll, Sierra Community College, 1995-1997 |
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER
| Animal Behaviour, Ecography, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Journal of Animal Ecology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, Population Ecology, Theoretical Ecology |
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
| Lab Technician, College of Forestry, University of Montana (March 2003-June 2004) |
| Intern, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA (Oct 2000 - Oct 2001) |
| Field Biologist, NSF Research Project, Oregon (April-June 2000) |
| Volunteer field assistant for graduate students and researcher peers (1999-on going) |
| Collaborative history that spans diverse scientific fields, researcher nationalities, and scientific backgrounds (2000-on going) |
PROGRAMMING
| R; Matlab; Linux shell scripting; Visual Basic |
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
| Volunteered in a variety of restoration and plant surveying projects along the central coast of California; assisted other fellow graduate students in their field projects; volunteer/member of Protect American River Canyons |
