I’m a soil scientist, ecologist, and educator focused on the practical and ecological relationships between land, water, and people. My work investigates how these systems interact, and how that understanding can inform more resilient approaches to agriculture, conservation, and climate adaptation. I hold a Master’s and PhD in agroecosystems and soil science from Mississippi State University, where I focused soil health, water quality, and integrated agricultural landscapes.
I currently live in Colorado and work as a Research Scientist at Colorado State University, where I study soil health, water conservation, and agroecosystem resilience across working lands in the Rocky Mountain West. I collaborate with farmers, ranchers, nonprofits, businesses, and agencies to understand what healthy soil looks like in practice, especially under drought pressure and an increasingly unpredictable climate. I do much of this work through my leadership role at the Integrated Rocky Mountain Region Innovation Center for Healthy Soils (IN-RICHES), a transdisciplinary soil health center focused on creating systems-level change to scale regenerative practices across the region.
I also consult with organizations and producers who want to make sense of soil data and land-based outcomes. I offer services designing field trials and management plans, ecological assessments, interpreting monitoring results, thinking through soil’s role in broader landscape change, and connecting the science with decision making.
I believe science is most powerful when it grows from relationships; relationships with land, with people, and with the questions that keep us curious. Read more about my current projects here.
*The views expressed here are my own and do not reflect the positions of any affiliated institution*