2026 Swift Endowment Fellow
Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
I am a second-year student at UC Davis majoring in WFCB with minors in GIS and Stats. My academic interests include remote sensing and GIS applications in ecology, vegetation change in alpine and high-latitude ecosystems, and human–wildlife conflict in pastoral and agricultural landscapes. I am especially interested in how environmental change shapes wildlife populations and the relationship between people and natural systems.
At UC Davis, I have been involved in hands-on field and research experiences that have strengthened these interests. I worked with the Putah Creek Nestbox Highway program and also completed a summer internship at the Shanshui Conservation Center on the Tibetan Plateau, where I assisted with wildlife surveys, vegetation work, and data analysis using drones, Excel, and R. Those experiences showed me the value of careful field data collection in remote environments and the importance of connecting research with practical conservation needs.
I am excited to join the Post Lab for the 2026 field season in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. I am so grateful for the chance to be part of a project that examines climate change in one of the world’s most rapidly changing (and most beautiful) environments!
Post Lab @ UC Davis 