Michigan State University; East Lansing, Michigan

Doctor of Philosophy in Fisheries and Wildlife — 2020 (expected)
Certification in Conservation Criminology (completed)
Certification in College Teaching Program (in progress)

Major Advisor: William Taylor, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in Global Fisheries Systems
Committee Members: Edmund McGarrell, Ph.D., Professor; Norm Graham, Ph.D., Professor; Adam Zwickle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

GPA​: 3.88

COURSEWORK

• Advanced Fish Ecology
• Advancing Learning through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching
• Advocacy in the Natural Resources Arena
• An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching
• Corporate Environmental Crime and Risk
• Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS)
• Criminal Justice Organization and Process
• The Cross-Boundary Social Science of Trust in the Institutional Context
• Environmental Risk Perception and Decision-Making
• Fish Population Dynamics
• General Civil Mediation
• Global Issues in Fisheries and Wildlife
• Global Risks, Conservation, and Criminology
• Introduction to Environmental Science and Policy
• Introduction to the Models, Clustering, and Graphical Representations for Social Network Analysis
• Leadership in Natural Resources and Environmental Management
• Pathways to Scientific Teaching
• Statistics for Biologists
• Systems Thinking
• Telling Your Story: Communicating Your Research to Diverse Audiences
• Uncertainty and Natural Resource Management
• Valuation in Natural Resources

​University of Washington; Seattle, Washington

​Master's of Marine and Environmental Affairs – 2013

Major Advisors: Terrie Klinger, Director and Professor; Charles "Si" Simenstad, Research Professor

​GPA​: 3.70

​Coursework

• Advanced R Programming
• Applied Geostatistics and Spatial Pattern Analysis
• Bevan's Guest Lecture Series
• Decision Making and Action Taking in Marine Affairs
• Fisheries Management and Policy
• Fisheries Oceanography
• Integrated Coastal Management
• Integrated Marine Affairs
• International Organizations and Ocean Management
• Introduction to Human Dimensions of Global Change
• Introduction to R Programming
• Marine Policy Analysis
• Salmonid Life Behavior and History
• Statistical Inference in Ecology
• U.S. Coastal and Ocean Law

Michigan State University; East Lansing, Michigan

Honors College — 2007-2011
Bachelor's of Science in Fisheries and Wildlife — 2011
Specialization in Spanish
Specialization in Marine Ecosystem Management
Concentration in Water Sciences

GPA: 3.88​

Coursework

• Basic Spanish Grammar
• Calculus II
• Chemistry I, course and laboratory
• Communication Campaigns in Agriculture and the Environment
• Communications for Fisheries and Wildlife Professionals
• Conservation and Management of Marine Resources
• Ecological Problem Solving
• Ecology
• Environmental Ethics
• Fisheries Techniques
• Fundamentals of Fisheries and Wildlife, course and laboratory
• Women's Glee Club
• General Chemistry
• Honors Calculus I
• Honors Introductory Physics I, course and laboratory
• Human Dimensions of Fisheries and Wildlife Management
• Ichthyology
• Introduction to Microeconomics
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Ecologists
• Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literature
• Limnology
• Marine Biology
• Marine Ecosystem Management
• Oceanography
• Organisms and Populations, course and laboratory
• Physical Geography
• Plant Biology, course and laboratory
• Plant Systematics, course and laboratory
• Population Analysis and Management
• Spain and its Literature
• Spanish Cultural Reading and Comprehension
• Spanish Media and Conversation
• Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation
• Spanish Structure
• Spanish Theatre and Drama
• Stream Ecology
• Topics in Hispanic Culture
• Undergraduate Seminar in Fisheries and Wildlife
• Writing: Major Topics in American Thought

Ursuline Academy; Blue Ash, Ohio

GPA: 4.30