I am currently employed as a postdoctoral fellow at UWA, where I am examining the ecology of stinking passionflower, a major environmental weed northern Australia's tropics. I have broad research interests in dryland ecology and biogeochemistry, plant functional ecology, riparian ecology, and vegetation remote-sensing.

Prior to my current role, I worked with the Mayfield lab the University of Melbourne, where I conducted field surveys examining plant/plant and plant/environment interactions in WA's annual wildflower communities. 

My PhD sought to charactarise the phenology of riverine vegetation of the Fortescue River catchment in the semi-arid/subtropical Pilbara region. To do so, I developed a suite of methods for measuring leaf area index (LAI) using ground and satellite-based remote sensing. I then used these methods, coupled with a large-scale space for time litterfall study, to examine the potential effects of shifting rainfall patterns and hydrologic regimes on plant growth, senesence and reproductive phenology.