Certifications:

• 2025-2030 Strout Freshwater Society certified taxonomist for Eastern North American EPT (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera) to Genus.

Work:

• 2024+ Field botanist/Environmental scientist: Oxbow Associates. Boxborough, MA. Conducting rare plant surveys, turtle surveys, and wetland delineation throughout Massachusetts and neighboring states.
• 2022-2024 Consulting field biologist: Norcross Sanctuary. Wales, MA. Surveys for natural communities, important features, moths, leafmines, galls, and within vegetation plots. In collaboration with Charley Eiseman (Naturalist – Northfield, MA).
• 2022-2024 Lab manager, lead technician: Cole Ecological. Greenfield, MA. Processing benthic macroinvertebrate samples for water quality biomonitoring across the United States.
• 2022-2023 Conservation agent: Town of Leverett, MA. Working with the conservation commission on issues pertaining to the Wetlands Protection Act, as well as land conservation projects and other administrative duties.
• 2021-2023 Approved consulting botanist for state-listed plant surveys: approved by Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program. Westborough, MA.
• 2020-2024 Independent researcher of nocturnal moth pollination: with funding from and in collaboration with Gegear Lab at UMass Dartmouth. Dartmouth, MA (2021).
• 2019-2023 Conservation agent: Town of Wendell, MA. Working with the conservation commission on issues pertaining to the Wetlands Protection Act, Town of Wendell Wetlands Bylaw, and other administrative duties. (Volunteer member 2016-2019).
• 2019-2021 Consulting seed collector: Native Plant Trust. Framingham and Whately, MA. Scouting for, acquiring permission to collect, and collecting seeds of common native plant species in accordance with Native Plant Trust guidelines.
• 2019-2023 Consulting field botanist, entomological surveyor, and horticultural consultant: Landscape Interactions LLC. Northampton, MA. Including producing over 30 botanical inventory reports for the UMass ‘Pollinator-friendly’ certification for solar arrays across Massachusetts.
• 2016-2017 Consulting habitat designer: in collaboration with Moosewood Ecological (Chesterfield, NH) for Army Corps of Engineers at Otter Brook. Roxbury, NH.
• 2016-2022 Field botanist: Betsy Von Holle Ph.D and Christopher Neill Ph.D’s research at Cape Cod National Seashore. Wellfleet, MA.
• 2016-2022 Owner and operator: native plant nursery. Wendell, MA. Propagating over 100 species of native plants from predominantly local ecotype seed.
• 2014-2016 Propagation & nursery assistant, Plant sales coordinator: New England Wild Flower Society (now Native Plant Trust). Whately and Framingham, MA. Work included designing, building, and maintaining a fern propagation lab, propagating exclusively from spores.

Presentations:

• 2025 Presenter: "You Are What You Eat: Plant-Insect Relationships" at Ecological Landscape Alliance annual conference. Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. Brewster, MA
• 2024 Presenter: Blacklighting demonstration, "Amphibians and Aquatic Insects of Vernal Pools", and "Plant-Insect Interactions" (all in collaboration with Scott Smyers) at Cape Cod Bioblitz. Brewster, MA
• 2024 Presenter: Blacklighting demonstration at Mt. Wachusett Bioblitz. Princeton, MA
• 2024 Presenter: "How Insects Use Plants: A Walking Tour of Plant-Insect Interactions". Garden In The Woods. Native Plant Trust in Framingham MA.
• 2024 Presenter: Moths light demonstrations for the Princeton, MA Open Space Committee and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment.
• 2024 Presenter: "Life in Wendell: A Presentation on the History, Methods, and Findings of 5+ years of Biological Surveys in the Town of Wendell, MA". Presented at the Wendell Free Library.
• 2023 Presenter: "Identification, Propagation, and Faunal Associations of Asters and Goldenrods". Hitchcock Center for the Environment. Amherst, MA.
• 2023 Presenter: "Beyond Flowers: Host and Nest Needs of Lesser-considered Flower-visitors". Presented at Harvard Forest’s Fisher Museum (3/12), Splendor Solis Books (4/14), Marlborough Public Library (4/29), Wendell Free Library (5/21).
• 2022-2024 Presenter: Plant/Insect Interactions. New England Botanical Society’s Queer Plant Convergence at Norcross Sanctuary. As well as hosting blacklight demonstrations.
• 2022-2023 Presenter: Grow Native Massachusetts. Cambridge, MA. Walks on identification, propagation, and faunal associations of asters and goldenrods (2022) and Spring ephemerals (2023).
• 2018-2020 Presenter: "Small-scale Propagation of Northeast Native Plants from Seed". Northeast Organic Farmers Association. Including slideshow presentations, seed collection walks, and sowing demonstrations.

Documents:

• 2022-2024 Appointed member: Town of Wendell Open Space Committee. Wendell, MA. Revising the "Town of Wendell Open Space Plan" in collaboration with Franklin Regional Council of Governments.
• 2023 Consulting entomologist: Regenerative Design Group. Greenfield, MA. Consulting on a proposal document for A Pollinator Action Plan for the city of Somerville, MA.
• 2022 Consultant: Maine Audubon. Falmouth, ME. Contributor/Editor on the document "Habitat Restoration and Native Planting for Maine Solar Development".
• 2019-2024 Founder and member: Wendell Pollinator Group. Guided plant and insect walks, presentations, garden design & implementation, biodiversity surveys, and creation of the document "Wendell Pollinator Action Plan" in collaboration with Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG). Wendell, MA.

Volunteer:

• 2020-2023 Naturalist: Contributor of 13,500+ observations comprising 3,900+ species on the iNaturalist community science platform.
• 2021-2023 Founder and Project Manager: Flower-visiting Moths of the Northeast (iNaturalist project). Collecting flower-visitation records for moths in the region, with currently 44 members/contributors.
• 2018-2023 Volunteer contributor: 4,800 observations (975+ moth species) to Mass Moths project, including several new species records for Franklin Co., several new stations for state-listed moth species, a state record for Xenolechia ceanothiae, and new host records for Bucculatrix staintonella and Coleophora multipulvella among other finds.
• 2016-2023 Private researcher: Documenting the biodiversity of Wendell, MA in collaboration with J. William Stubblefield PhD (3,500+ species documented).
• 2016-2023 Volunteer contributor: 50+ town-level plant records to Bertin R, et. al (2020) Vascular flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts. New England Botanical Club including new stations for state-listed plant species.