I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Environmental/ Studies/Life Science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2004.  As an undergraduate, I participated in many research  and management projects:

 

In 2001 I worked in tallgrass prairie restoration around the Omaha area.

 

In 2002 I participated in a project studying pronghorn antelope in the Ogalala National Grasslands in northwest Nebraska; I also worked on a study of Dickcissels near Omaha.

 

In 2003 I worked for the Nature Conservancy and Nebraska Game & Parks in prairie & wetland restoration of the central Platte River valley.

 

In 2004 I worked in invasive plant control in Bellevue, Nebraska’s Fontenelle Forest. I also spent the summer of 2004 working as a research assistant on a graduate student project studying the effects of cattle grazing on upland birds in the Nebraska Sandhills. This is when I took most of the photos used in this site.

 

After graduating in December of 2004 I got a job as a graphic designer (go figure) and worked at that position for the next three years. In 2009 I began graduate school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and am currently pursuing my Masters in Natural Resource Sciences and conducting research on insects in the tallgrass prairie of Southeast Nebraska.