2000 Ph.D (Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) University of Missouri - St. Louis.

1995 M.S. (Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) University of Missouri-St. Louis.

1992 B.A. (Biology) Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution; SUNY-Stony Brook, September 2003 to present.

Post-doctoral Associate, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC-Berkeley,July 2000 - August 2003. Use of geographic information systems (GIS) models of predicted species distributions, in combination with historical, morphological and phylogenetic data to study the processes that created current patterns of species richness. Dr. C. Moritz, PI.

Post-doctoral Research Associate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, September 1999 - July 2000. Use of remote sensing data (Landsat) to quantify landcover change from the 1970s to the present in the savanna-forest ecotone in Cameroon, Africa. Dr. S. Saatchi and Dr. T. Smith,

CURRENT COLLABORATORS

Tom Brooks, Conservation International; Luis Coloma, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Quighua Goa, UC-Berkeley; Robert Hijmans, UC-Berkeley; Pilar Hernandez, Natureserve; Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Marc Languy, WWF-EARPO; Steven Latta, Point Reyes Bird Observatory; Bette Loiselle, University of Missouri–St. Louis; Craig Moritz, UC-Berkeley; Leslie Rissler, University of Alabama; Santiago Ron, University of Texas-Austin; Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Tom Smith, University of California-LA; Christopher Schneider, Boston University; David Wake, UC-Berkeley; Robert Wayne, University of California-LA; John Wiens, Stony Brook University; Steve Williams, University of Townsville, Australia

GRADUATE AND POST-DOCTORAL ADVISORS

John Blake, University of Missouri, St. Louis – Thesis Advisor

Bette Loiselle, University of Missouri, St. Louis – Committee Member

Robert Ricklefs, University of Missouri, St. Louis – Committee Member

Victoria Sork, University of California LA - Committee Member

Sassan Saatchi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Post-doctoral Advisor

Tom Smith, UCLA– Post-doctoral Advisor

Craig Moritz, UC-Berkely– Post-doctoral Advisor

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