Research Interests

I am interested in the shifts in plant community composition and fitness as a result of climate change. Warming temperatures are causing earlier snowmelt and lower snowpack, which consequently cues plant species to bloom earlier. These early-blooming species may become pollen limited due to the phenological mismatch between flowering time and pollinator emergence. My honors thesis focused on connecting relative flowering time to plant reproductive success in three subalpine plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. My other research interests include pollination networks, plant population dynamics, and natural history in general.