Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

I finished my disseration work in 2008 at the University of Vermont, and now am an assistant professor at the University of New England in Bidderford, Maine. . I study the joint ecological and evolutionary consequences of using human-managed habitats as wildlife habitat. In 2002 I began a long-term research project on how hayfield and pasture management affects the life-histories of grassland songbirds. Along with ecology and evolution work, this project has expanded to create and explore federal policies that balance landowners' economic and birds' life-history needs. In 2008 I began a collaborative project exploring what the ideal farm looks like--both in terms of maximizing farm production as well as biodiversity.