About ME

I'm a fire ecologist interested in fire behaviour, pyrodiversity, and supporting Indigenous-led fire stewardship. In 2023, I began a Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions funded postdoctoral position with The Centre for Wildfire Co-existence at The University of British Columbia. My research focuses on understanding historic fire activity and how fire suppression has eroded wildfire resiliency in subboreal forests in northwest British Columbia.

In previous postdoctoral positions, I’ve collaborated with researchers to examine how managed forests in British Columbia respond to increasingly severe wildfire seasons. PhD research reconstructed Holocene fire activity, climate, and vegetation in temperate rainforests located on the Central Coast of British Columbia. I assessed ecological legacies associated with long-term cultural burning and using fire as a tool for resource management. This work has contemporary applications in forest management such as reducing wildfire risk, and establishing prescribed and cultural burning programs in British Columbia that are informed by Indigenous knowledge and western science. 

After living in California and the Pacific Northwest for several years, I’ve recently returned to my roots in northwest British Columbia. I enjoy communicating my research findings through non-academic channels including magazines, radio, and blog posts. I'm equally divided in my love of the mountains and oceans and spend as much time as possible outside with my family.