I am a Lecturer at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In September 2010 I received my Ph.D. from the Plant Biology Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as a student of Aaron Ellison. My research focused on the host plant interactions and demography of a rare hemiparasitic plant, Swamp Lousewort (Pedicularis lanceolata Michx.). From September 2010 - August 2012 I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, Harvard Forest where I studied the response of vegetation to climate change on large spatial and temporal scales.

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