Photos

2012 - 2016 
Presenting my first research project: "Sapling growth across an elevational gradient: implications for climate change responses"
Summer 2014. With Graduate student Leander Love-Anderegg at one of our plots in Colorado.
Summer 2014, Wild Flowering cacti in the deep southwest of America. 
Summer 2014. Leander Love-Anderegg and Deni Murray heading to another a field plot in Colorado.                                                  
Summer 2014. Pinus ponderosa intricacy in branching.
Summer 2014. Leander Love-Anderegg again leading the way to a field plot in Colorado.  
September 2014. Field work on Mt. Rainier!
Summer 2014. The same Pinus ponderosa being cored!
​September 2014. Marmot spotted while hiking to a Mt. Rainier plot!
December 2014. Wild Monstera deliciosa on Hawaii.
December 2014. Epiphytes on Hawaii!
Ficus benghalensis on Hawaii.
May 2015. Mentor Dr. Leander DL Anderegg (plant community ecology and ecophysiology), me, and mentor Melissa E. Lacey (plant physiology), where I presented "Climatic constraints drive clinal variation in Populus tremuloides leaf morphology".
UW Biol 472 (Community Ecology) Field trip to Mt. Rainier National Park. With Dr. Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, PhD student Ethan Linck, and five undergraduates (including me).
One of my undergraduate advisors Dr. Janneke HilleRisLambers (Professor, UW) and me at the 2016 UW Department of Biology Graduation.
September 2014. View of the south side of Mt. Rainier, WA

December 2014. Found some wild Mimosa pudica!
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​(above) Autumn 2014. The Van Volkenburgh Lab at the University of Washington. From left to right: 
Outer Row: PhD student Amita Banerjee, Dr. Emily Palm, PhD student Amber Hageman, PhC Johanna Cantillo-Polo, PhC Shawn-Behling, me, Dr. Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh, PhC Melissa Lacey
Inner Row: PhC Aric Rininger, Milan Urban
Cocos nucifera (coconut) on Hawaii.
2015. Undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral research associates, and the SAMSI workshop organizers at SAMSI, at Research Triangle Park. SAMSI Modeling workshop postdoctoral research mentors and group project group. 
2015. From left to right: Postdoctoral researcher Daniel Taylor (Duke), undergraduates: Jose Diaz (USF), Karl Schneider (NCSU), Abi Gopal (Virginia Tech), Yiming Xu (CSU), Alec Baird (UW), and postdoctoral researcher Kimberly Kaufeld (NCSU)
Looking west from Inspiration Point, Mt. Rainier National Park.
My other undergraduate advisor Dr. Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh (Professor, UW) and me after the 2016 UW Department of Biology Graduation.
2017 - present
University of California - Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 1st year PhD and Masters students during a weekend retreat at the Jacobs Research Reserve in the San Jacinto Mountains!
Flowering aloe and agave!