Publications
Peer-reviewed papers and other scholarly contributions spanning freshwater and coastal ecology.
Browse publications →Ecology beyond boundaries.
Exploring how energy, nutrients, and contaminants move across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and what these connections mean for food webs and biodiversity in a changing world.
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Welcome
Connecting ecosystems, scales, and ideas.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. My research broadly focuses on understanding connections across ecosystems and the processes that structure aquatic food webs.
I combine field studies, stable isotopes, fatty-acid biomarkers, contaminant analysis, and ecological modeling to investigate freshwater, coastal, and terrestrial systems.
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Research themes
Questions that cross boundaries.
Our research connects the movement of resources across ecosystems with the structure of food webs and the ecological consequences of environmental change.
Aquatic–terrestrial connections
Understanding how energy, nutrients, and contaminants move across ecosystem boundaries, and how these exchanges influence food webs and consumers.
Food webs in a changing world
Investigating how climate change, freshwater management, restoration, and species invasions affect the structure and functioning of aquatic food webs.
Biodiversity and contaminants
Examining freshwater biodiversity and the distribution, accumulation, and movement of contaminants across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
People & mentoring
Science is collaborative.
Our research group brings together undergraduate and graduate researchers studying ecological connections, food webs, and environmental change. Mentoring and collaboration are central to how we ask questions and conduct research.
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Research, teaching, and collaboration.
Teaching
Undergraduate biology, ecology, and graduate training at Louisiana State University.
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Interested in research collaborations, graduate study, or joining the lab?
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