About me

I'm a biogeographer and ecologist. My research interests involve community ecology, restoration ecology, plant taxonomy, and conservation. Additionally, I am interested in understanding the effects of climate change on high mountain vegetation.

Currently, I’m a postdoc in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at the University of California, Riverside

Ph.D. in Geography and the Environment, the University of Texas at Austin

​M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

B.S. in Biology, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador 

“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”

-Alexander von Humboldt