EDUCATION

Ph.D. Stanford University, Biology (2012)

M.A. San Francisco State University, Biology (2004)

B.A. Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, Marine Biology with Honors (1999)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor of Botany, School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2025-present)

Director of Joseph F. Rock Herbarium, School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2025-present)

Graduate Faculty in Botany, School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2025-present)

Associate Professor of Biology, Dept. of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (2021-2024)

Graduate Faculty, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (2019-present)

Assistant Professor of Biology, Dept. of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (2016-present)

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Field Biology, Dept. of Biology, University of San Francisco (2015-2016)

Lecturer, Dept. of Biology, Stanford University (2014-15)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University (2013-2014)

HHMI Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Biology, Stanford University (2012)

Adjunct Instructor, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon (2012)

University of Hawaii at Hilo, Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2019)

Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences Award for Mentoring Excellence (2014)

Stanford University, Dept. of Biology Norman K. Wessells Teaching Award (2011)

Stanford University, Dept. of Biology Teaching Excellence Award (2011)

National Science Foundation GK-12 Teaching Fellowship Award (2006-2008)

Santa Cruz County Science Fair Teacher of the Year (2005)

San Francisco State University, Nelson Fellowship Award for Academic Excellence (2002)

San Francisco State University, Graduate Fellowship Award for Teaching Excellence (2001)

University of California, Santa Cruz, Thesis Honors (1998)