B.A. Biology, Brown University

University of Chicago Ph.D candidate 2003-present

Awards:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow 2003-2006

Current Research:

I am interested in the causes and consequences of variability in plant and animal populations. The marine seagrass genus Phyllospadix lives on the intertidal rocks of the northern Pacific and can reproduce both clonally and sexually. I am investigating how two species of Phyllospadix differ in their utilization of each reproductive mode and what that pattern of utilization means for the persistence of Phyllospadix populations and, by extension, other species which use Phyllospadix as habitat.