July 2023: Had a great day joining over 50 participants at Mass Audubon's Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary for a Living Observatory "Making Meaning" event. April 2023: Attended the UMass Cranberry Station Ribbon Cutting. It was a great day hearing about the excellent cranberry research and innovation in Massachusetts.
January 2023: Participated in the 2023 UMass Cranberry Management Update.
May 2022: Started a postdoc at the USDA investigating nutrient transformations in cranberry farms to improve water quality and inform fertilizer management.
June 2021: Successfully defended dissertation, "Hydrologic, Biogeochemical, Regulatory and Community Components of Stream and Riparian Zone Restoration: Insights for Watershed Management in North Carolina."
April 2021: Presented at the Water Quality Monitoring Council's 12th National Monitoring Conference. Had a great week of virtual networking and discussion!
October 2020: Attended and judged student presentations at the virtual New England Estuarine Research Society's Fall 2020 meeting.
September 2020: Submitted an on-demand recorded presentation for the National Coastal and Estuarine Virtual 2020 Summit, hosted by Restore America's Estuaries.
June 2020: Attended the virtual New England Estuarine Research Society's Spring Meeting.
May 2020: Attended the virtual Rhode Island Environmental Monitoring Collaborative Spring Meeting.
January 2020: Represented the Narragansett Bay Commission at the Rhode Island Boat Show. Here, members of NBC's Environmental Science and Compliance Division presented monitoring results, demonstrated scientific instrumentation, and narrated benthic videos for members of the public.
November 2019: Had a great time identifying macroinvertebrates and conducting water quality testing with students from Kent Heights Elementary School as part of the NBC Watershed Explorers program.
June 2019: Attended the Environmental Business Council - Rhode Island Chapter's meeting "The State of Stormwater in Rhode Island - Water Quality, Stormwater Permits, and Sea Level Rise," where the NBC Senior Scientist highlighted the Narragansett Bay Commission's environmental monitoring initiatives.
April 2019: Enjoyed hearing about the great environmental monitoring, research, and restoration initiatives occurring around Rhode Island at the Rhode Island Environmental Monitoring Collaborative Annual Meeting. Presented results from NBC's 2018 monitoring season.
Facilitated interactive educational activities on stormwater pollution for Rhode Island students at the NBC Watershed Explorer's Conference.
January 2019: Spent some time representing Narragansett Bay Commission at the Rhode Island Boat Show. Here, members of NBC's Environmental Science and Compliance Division presented monitoring results, demonstrated scientific instrumentation, and narrated benthic videos for members of the public.
November 2018: Enjoyed meeting students from the Greene School and giving a presentation on Narragansett Bay Commission's wastewater treatment processes, environmental monitoring programs, and recent water quality improvements.
June 2018: Had a great day with New England Water Environment Association's Young Professionals installing a rain garden in Portsmouth, RI.
Enjoyed attending talks on building resilience to extreme events at New England Water Environment Association's Spring meeting in Newport, RI.
Received the N.G. Kaul Memorial Scholarship from the New York Water Environment Association.
May 2018: Led a watershed modeling exercise with Girls Inc. in Syracuse, NY. I enjoyed simulating rainfall events as the participants described sources of pollution in their watersheds.
Honored to have been awarded, "SUNY-ESF Outstanding Ph.D. Environmental Science Scholar, 2017-2018."
April 2018: Spent a wonderful day with the Izaak Walton League of America Central New York Young Naturalist Leadership Team and representatives from local environmental consulting firms examining vegetation, hydrology, macroinvertebrates, and bird habitat at the the Onondaga Lake wetland and stream restoration monitoring orientation!
March 2018: Judged Senior Division projects at the Central New York Science and Engineering Fair - I was very impressed by the creative, scientifically rigorous projects!
February 2018: Had a great time aiding in the Izaak Walton League of America's Central New York Chapter Young Naturalist Program activity on creating field guides and identifying various fish species in streams, reservoirs, and lakes in Onondaga County.
January 2018: Facilitated a group discussion on bolstering citizen science efforts between members of state agencies, local non-profits, and academic researchers at the Central New York Citizen Water Quality Monitoring Mini-Conference.
December 2017: Gave an oral presentation entitled, "The Impact of Cross-vane Restoration Structures on Riparian Zone Hydrology" at the American Geophysical Union's Annual Fall Meeting. Also volunteered at the AGU Student and Early Career Scientist Conference and co-chaired a panel discussion on forging successful partnerships between academia, government, private industry, and non-profit groups.
November 2017: Enjoyed serving on the panel "Methods and Approaches in Environmental Science," at the Graduate Research Methods forum at the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Pre-Conference.
October 2017: Attended an informative meeting "The State of Narragansett Bay and Its Watershed," to celebrate Narragansett Bay Estuary Program's new technical report release.
Thank you to the Southern New England Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society for hosting Erosion and Sediment Control Field Days!
September 2017: Had a great time presenting research to Central New York High School students with the talk, "Going with the flow: research experiences in water science."
Participated in the International Coastal Clean-Up with Save the Bay in Rhode Island!
Enjoyed learning about nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics at the 2017 Estuary Workshop "Limiting Factors Beyond Nitrogen" hosted by the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.
August 2017: Had a great time at the Providence Waterways Woonasquatucket River Clean-Up.
July 2017: Attended New England Water Environment Association's "Creating Resilient Infrastructure and Watersheds" conference in Lowell, MA.
June 2017: Gained knowledge about residential rain gardens at the "Rain Garden Installation Demo" at King Park in Newport, Rhode Island.
Aided in salt marsh grass planting for Ninigret Pond salt marsh restoration with the Narrow River Preservation Association.
May 2017: Completed the New York Academy of Sciences Scientist in Residence program at a local middle school. It was a great semester of conducting experiments to determine the effects of pollution on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems!
April 2017: Had a great time co-leading an Aquatic Resource Youth Educator Training at the Onondaga Lake Visitor's center and touring the newly-restored streams and wetlands (Nine Mile Creek and Geddes Brook) with the SUNY-ESF Watershed Hydrology class. Also enjoyed joining a local high school for a tour of Harbor Brook CSO Pilot Treatment Wetlands
Volunteered at Girl's Summit and SUNY-ESF Kid's Day co-leading a watershed modeling exercise.
March 2017: Attended March to Lake Day, a public scientific symposium on the state of the science regarding Owasco Lake water chemistry and harmful algal blooms, with a group of interested SUNY-ESF undergraduate students (Team Owasco).
Had a great time building watershed models and discussing environmental pollution with a local 5th grade class.
February 2017: Passed the oral and written portions of my Ph.D. candidacy exams.
January 2017: Attended the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Extreme Event Impacts on Aquatic Biogeochemical Cycles and Fluxes in Puerto Rico.
Had a great field tour of Owasco Flats with the SUNY-ESF Watershed Hydrology class!
December 2016: Attended Cornell University's Systems Thinking Symposium "Applying Systems Thinking to Complex Water and Policy Problems" - interesting presentations by graduate student fellows!
Presenting poster on "Impact of Stream Restoration on Riparian Hydrology and Biogeochemistry" at American Geophysical Union's Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
October 2016: Participated in a Geosciences panel at SUNY-ESF for New York high school students via SUNY-ESF Outreach.
Attended Youth Aquatic Resource Educator Training and Izaak Walton League of America Creek Freaks Certification Program at Cornell Biological Field Station.
Aided in a field trip of Onondaga Lake Watershed with a local NY high school - we discussed the history of the area, calculated stream flow, and searched for macroinvertebrates.
April 2016: Had a great time volunteering for the Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair and Rhode Island Science Olympiad.
March 2016: Guest lecturer for FOR 340/540 Watershed Hydrology on stream restoration and watershed management, "Stream restoration: moving towards an ecosystem-based perspective?"
Enjoyed scoring Soil Science essays for the Rhode Island Academic Decathlon.
September 2015: Attended the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research Proposal Writing Workshop at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD.
Summer 2015: Great field season conducting nutrient injections and riparian/hyporheic/stream sampling following storm events!
June 2015: Presented research at the Gordon Research Conference on Catchment Science in Andover, NH.
May 2015: Environmental Geology Field Demonstration Workshop Participant, Central New York Association of Professional Geologists, Syracuse, NY.
Presented research at the Society for Freshwater Science meeting in Milwaukee, WI, also chaired the Student-Mentor Mixer and judged undergraduate research posters .
April 2015: Guest lecturer for FOR 340/540 Watershed Hydrology, "We all live downstream: exploring stream restoration practices and pollution tradeoffs."
March 2015: Invited panelist for Syracuse University's Research Methods panel at the Graduate Research Conference in Syracuse, NY.
Served as a volunteer science judge for the Corcoran High School Earth Science Symposium.
Had a great day judging senior division projects at the Central New York Science and Engineering Fair.
November 2014: Presented research results to hydrologists, managers, and restoration practitioners at the Ecostream conference in Charlotte, NC.
Successfully defended thesis on denitrification along the stream-riparian continuum in restored and unrestored streams in agricultural watersheds in North Carolina.
October 2014: Ran a Jeopardy!-style engineering game with Society of Women Engineers at University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
September 2014: Had a great day volunteering with the Society of Women Engineers at the "Engineers are Epic" engineering event with a local Girl Scout Troop in Charlotte, NC.
June 2014: Presented research at the American Ecological Engineering Society, Charleston, SC.
May 2014: Presented research on denitrification hotspots at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland, OR, also volunteered as a student room monitor.
April 2014: Received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Participated in the Briar Creek Clean-up with Catawba Riverkeeper in NC.
March 2014: Presented research on stream restoration at the North Carolina Water Resources Symposium in Raleigh, NC - poster received honorable mention.
June 2013: Joined the McMillan Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Watersheds Laboratory at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
May 2013: Awarded URI President's Award for Environmental Science and Management.
Presented undergraduate honors thesis research on beaver ponds at the URI Honors Senior Research Conference.
January 2013: Attended the Fundamentals of Ecosystem Ecology Course at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY.
December 2012: Presented research at the URI Coastal Fellows Symposium, Kingston, RI.
Summer 2012: Received a scholarship from the Rhode Island Society of Environmental Professionals.
April 2012: Presented research at the Vermont EPSCoR Watershed Project Symposium.
Spring 2012: Completed internships with Grow Smart Rhode Island and Environment Rhode Island.
July 2011: Presented research at the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Rhode Island Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Conference.
April 2011: Presented research at the 8th Annual Water Resources Research Water 2011 Regional Conference in Massachusetts.
December 2010: Presented research at the University of Rhode Island Coastal Fellows Symposium on nitrate removal from transient headwater streams
Fall 2010: Received a Watershed Watch Hydrology Scholarship and David Wilkes Coastal Fellows Scholarship.