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I am a natural historian at heart.
Natural history provides us with the background information to pose sound and interesting ecological and evolutionary questions. This relationship was what drew me to this field, and it is from this intersection that my interests arise. I am leading the development of the BirdsPlus Index at the American Bird Conservancy. We are using automated acoustic monitoring to quantify biodiversity in working landscapes in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
Research
My research focuses on understanding why species occur where they do, and why they look how they do. I am increasingly interested in what this information can teach us about forestalling our ongoing biodiversity crisis, and my current work is targeted accordingly. I use phylogenetic comparative methods and synthesize field, museum, and citizen science data on the behavioral, ecological and morphological attributes of organisms to address fundamental questions of biodiversity.
