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Welcome to my website! I am a bioacoustician and sensory ecologist seeking to use my skills towards understanding how anthropogenic changes to the environment can impact wildlife. I'm currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire, advised by Nathan Furey and Jennifer-Miksis Olds. My research focuses on understanding the relationship between soundscapes and the abundance of organisms at lower trophic levels, and the potential for predatory species to extract information about the abundance of prey at lower trophic levels from sound.
I completed my Ph.D. in the Sisneros lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. My doctoral research centers on investigating honest acoustic signaling, mate call perception, and directional hearing in the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus). Prior to my Ph.D., I conducted my master's project under the guidance of Dr. Sanjay Sane at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India. There, I focused on characterizing the landing maneuvers of houseflies (Musca domestica) on vertical and inverted surfaces. Additionally, during my undergraduate studies, I engaged in research projects spanning community ecology, phylogenetics, and comparative anatomy. |