I'm an interdisciplinary hydrologist with 12 years of work experience in water

​I've loved water for as long as I can remember. I grew up on a ranch in northeastern Wyoming where I recognized the importance of water from the nearby Big Horn mountains from a young age. This passion for water has fueled my professional and personal development.

I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Desert Research Institute working with Dr. Rosemary Carroll and a large team of interdisciplinary scientists on a USDA funded grant looking at the impacts of changing snow for agriculture in the western United States. Thanks to funding from the USDA, Lincoln Center for Land Policy's Babbitt Dissertation Fellowship, and a Graduate Dean's Merit Fellowship, I completed my PhD in December of 2022 hydrogeology working with Dr. Adrian Harpold as part of the Nevada Mountain Ecohydrology Lab at the University of Nevada-Reno. 

I am an interdisciplinary hydrologist with a passion for applied work with the overarching goal of adapting water resources management to climate change. In my dissertation, I used a combination of big data, computational models, and social science methods to investigate how our mountain water resources are changing and what that means for downstream water demand in the western US.  I am particularly interested in how we can harness scientific advances to help agricultural communities cope with shifts in the timing and amount of streamflow.

My work experience spans a number of perspectives on water issues. I was most recently on the research staff at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment where I published on ecosystem services, water financing, and environmental streamflow transactions. Prior to working at Stanford, I was graduate researcher at the University of Wyoming's Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics focused on measuring agricultural return flows near the Wind River mountains.  I was also part of the Environmental Health and Safety Department for Apache Corporation (now APA Corporation) where I focused on corporate water use reporting among other things. I have worked for the USFS as a wildland firefighter on an engine and a fire use module, as an intern at the Environmental Defense Fund, and as an undergraduate fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. 

I received my B.S. in Environmental History and English from Stanford University where I graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a Division 1 Varsity athlete in 2010 and my M.S. in Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management in 2016.  In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my husband, young child, and our dog in the outdoors. I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Plank Stewardship Initiative and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. ​