My teaching goals are to help student engage in hands on biology and find passion and meaning in their academic pursuits. I lecture in Animal Behavior, Field Research in Community Ecology, Biostatistics, and Conservation Biology and work with student in Organismal Biology recitations and mammalian anatomy labs. My lectures incorporate experiential learning through discussion and hands-on activities.

My research focuses on Behavioral Ecology, Population and Community-level dynamics, and Herpetology. I run a long-term study of the population dynamics of Spiny lizards (Genus: Sceloporus) in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. My colleagues and I have been studying how climate and drought have impacted the population over the past 4 decades. I also study the behaviors and behavioral responses of Sceloporus jarrovii, S. virgatus, S. clarikii, and Urosaurus ornatus to phenomena like tail loss (caudal autotomy), drought, and forest fires.

I have recently begun a local like of ecological research monitoring the herptiles of southeastern Pennsylvania and their community and population-level responses to climate change and human development.