One recent technological advance that has improved wildlife managers' ability to make inferences regarding wildlife populations comes from the field of molecular biology. It is not uncommon for a management activity to be halted because of the lack of information regarding a sensitive, threatened, or endangered species. The vast majority of legal actions constraining natural resource agencies involve wildlife. In general, my research has been centered on the following topic areas listed under “Research Interests” Research Interest When not working on solutions to management puzzles, I aim to conduct research that tries to understand how ecological and evolutionary forces interact to influence species distribution, and how these patterns interact with each other to influence local biodiversity. I have tried to combine my molecular ecology work, which often takes place in the laboratory, with a strong field component, as I believe that we derive the best scientific understandings of species and ecosystems through the amalgamation of field and laboratory methods. My research has been focused on the fields of population, conservation, and landscape genetics/genomic, with an emphasis on research that provides practical answers to natural resource problems.
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