Previous Research
Before joining the Holekamp Lab, I was a research assistant for the project, the Masai Mara Hyena Project. I was responsible for collecting routine demographic and behavioral data on spotted hyenas. |
I completed a senior honors thesis at Smith College under the guidance of Dr. Sara Pruss exploring microbial diversity in the late Neoproterozoic (~850 to 635 million years ago). I looked at strata (rock formations) from before and after the Sturtian glaciation. |
As a college junior, I studied abroad in Kenya and Tanzania with The School for Field Studies. I was thrilled to work with Dr. John Kioko researching elephant demography in Lake Manyara National Park and the surrounding area. |
We examined age structure in both fossil and modern Cerion populations on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Dr. Sara Pruss oversaw our project. |
I was a Piping Plover and Salt Marsh Intern at the Lloyd Center for the Environment in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. I monitored nesting shorebirds, primarily piping plovers, and I assisted Jamie Bogart in collecting data on salt marshes post-restoration. Other conservation work I was a part of included water quality testing and tagging juvenile ospreys. |
I assisted Dr. Virginia Hayssen with collecting reproductive and body measurement data on lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, pikas) from the literature and museum specimens. We were looking at relationships among reproductive traits and body characteristics. |