The Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1949, and it is home to a complex series of ecosystems like freshwater marshes, desert shrublands, brackish water marshes, and alkali playas. The Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge…

Work has been really good since the last blog post! I finished up working on the species ranges I mentioned last time, the Morefield’s Leather Flower, and the Tennessee yellow-eyed grass. But this week is…

Growing up, I used to volunteer at a farm down the road from my house that served as a therapeutic riding center that prided themselves in eliminating money as a barrier to access. I would…

  What can we learn from Identifying and Monitoring Hotspots? ‘Hotspot’ is a term that refers to a region of concern. From an ecological perspective this would be an area of high endemism with a…

We live in a data-obsessed society. Business, sports, politics, you name it, are increasingly reliant on copious amounts of quantitative metrics and analytics to drive investment and optimize decision making. The government is no different.…

I am just about halfway through my DFP and it feels like I just started. I am beginning to realize that this DFP position was the best opportunity that I could have hoped for when…