Research

Hi! This page is where I will post about my past research experiences and other interesting research that is happening.

I’ll start by giving a bit of information about my research background. I began doing research in my second year of undergrad at The Ohio State University. The lab I worked in was in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and the projects I worked on studied eastern massassauga rattlesnake landscape genetics. In the 2019-2020 academic year I completed my own project studying two populations of common gartersnakes in Ohio and I am currently working on a paper about that project so stay tuned for more!

In the summer of 2018 I was an REU intern at the College of Charleston and I worked on an independent research project at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources studying the effect of different salinity conditions on juvenile blue crab growth rate. This internship was an amazing opportunity and taught me a lot about research. It was my first introduction to fisheries management and I loved every minute of it, so expect to hear more about my time there!

Last summer (2019) I completed an internship at the DNA lab in the Cincinnati Museum Center. The project I worked on was a hooded warbler parentage study, but the most rewarding part of this internship was being able to hold programs outside of the lab to educate the museum guests about the work we were doing!

Thank you for reading!