OVERVIEW
I am a PhD candidate in Dr. Volker Rudolf's lab in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department at Rice University. My research aims to link climate change-driven shifts in the timing of organisms' life cycles (phenological shifts) to outcomes on species interactions and broader consequences for natural communities. In particular, I am interested in the individual differences in timing that create a distribution of phenological events at the popualtion scale. My work measures how this distribution changes over time and in turn affects a population's demography and temporal overlap with interacting species. I use a mix of long-term amphibian calling data, manipulative aquatic mesocosm experiments, and theoretical modelling to answer these questions.