Academic Appointments

Education

Grants and Awards

  • Conservation Genetics Data Analysis Course, Tuition, BYU (2007, $1100)
  • Orenstein Fund Recipient, Cornell University (2006, $500)
  • Student Scholarship, Summer Institute of Statistical Genetics (2006, $1000)
  • American Association for University Women, Dissertation Fellowship, alternate list (2006)
  • Budweiser Conservation Scholarship, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, "Understanding fine scale patterns of distribution: an integrative approach" (2004-2005, $10,000)
  • National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Spatial analysis of effective size and genetic structure in desert breeding anurans" (2004-2006, $12,000)
  • Edna Bailey Sussman Internship (2004, $4,000)
  • Upstate Herpetological Association Grant (2004, $300)
  • Andrew W. Mellon Student Research Grant (2001, 2003, and 2004, total of $3,700)
  • National Science Foundation, Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2000, three years of tuition and stipend)
  • Conference Grant, Cornell University Graduate School (2002 and 2003, total of $700)
  • Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund, American Museum of Natural History (2001 and 2003, total of $3,200)
  • Liu Memorial Award, Cornell University (2002, $1,500)
  • Sigma Xi Award, Cornell University Chapter (2001, $425)
  • Gaige Award, American Sociatey of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (2001, $500)
  • Joseph LeConte Award in Natural History, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (1999)
  • Gompertz Summer Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley (1998, $3,000)

Course/Workshop Participation

  • Statistical Phylogeography Workshop at the Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona (2009)
  • Conservation Genetics Data Analysis Course, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Montana (2007)
  • Summer Institute of Statistical Genetics, Seattle, Washington - Population genetics and Phylogenetics modules (2006)

Service

  • Judge, Division of Evolution and Ecology, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA - Student Presentations (2010)
  • Judge, Society of Systematic Biology Awards for Graduate Student Research (2007)
  • Judge, Andrew W. Mellon Student Research Grants, Cornell University (2006)
  • Judge, Kieckhefer Adirondack Fellowships, Cornell University (2006)
  • Scientific Advisocry Committee, Southwestern Research Station, American Museum of Natural History
  • Reviewer for Conservation Genetics, Copeia, Ecotoxicology, Journal of Biogeography, Heredity, Herpetologica, and Pacific Science