I am an environmental educator and conservation biologist currently seeking a PhD program. I have experience working on numerous wildlife population surveys in restored riparian corridors along the Menomonee and Milwaukee Rivers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including monitoring small mammals, snakes, bats, and monarchs. Additionally, I have trained and managed volunteer citizen scientists of all ages to assist in my projects.

Now with more bananas than just another WordPress. com site! Congratulations On Your New Super Powers. I ride my bicycle out in the Bottoms, where the pastures meet the forest to the east and the ocean to the west, and the sky stretches out over it all in a big grey cotton blanket. Cows, vultures, and wildflowers among them, but also, I go out there to find myself. I rode further into the mist. As I pedaled onwards, I came to a fork in the roa.

One of my favorite plants. Taken at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, one of my favorite places. A view of Manhattan looking south from above the Reservoir in Central Park. I finally made it to Montauk! .