In 2017, I completed a PhD in Conservation Biology at the University of Central Florida studying the effects of roads on wildlife. I am currently a postdoctoral knowledge exchange fellow at the University of Oxford, supported by NERC. I am working with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to develop the IUCN Green List of Species: a set of new metrics to evaluate threatened species recovery, as well as the difference that conservation actions make in achieving recovery.
Experience
–present
Postdoctoral Fellow in Zoology, University of Oxford
Education
2017
University of Central Florida, PhD, Conservation Biology
2012
Duke University, BS, Biology
Publications
2019
Using historical and paleoecological data to inform ambitious species recovery targets, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2019
Defining the indigenous ranges of species to account for geographic and taxonomic variation in the history of human impacts: reply to Sanderson 2019., Conservation Biology
2018
Quantifying species recovery and conservation success to develop an IUCN Green List of Species, Conservation Biology
2018
Metrics of progress in the understanding and management of threats and their application to Australian birds, Conservation Biology
2018
Selective avoidance of anthropogenic noise by anuran amphibians, Animal Conservation
2017
Reducing the threat of wildlife-vehicle collisions during peak tourism periods using a Roadside Animal Detection System, Accident Analysis and Prevention
2017
Roadside Abundance of Anurans within a Community Correlates with Reproductive Life History, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2015
Testing alternative designs for a roadside animal detection system using a driving simulator, Nature Conservation
2014
No frequency shift in the “D” notes of Carolina chickadee calls in response to traffic noise, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Grants and Contracts
2018
Making the IUCN Green List work for government and business
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
University of Oxford
2017
NE/R002614/1 From Red to Green: Synthesizing research to create a metric of species conservation success for multiple end-users