ABOUT ME

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something"

- Thomas Huxley

When I was a young kid, I was constantly taken to the zoo. Every weekend I would run up to the tiger enclosure and think simple scientific thoughts, but nonetheless they were scientific thoughts. From a young age, I knew that zoology would be the path for me.

I am a masters student based at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I have a passion for education at the post-secondary level along with curiosity in the connections between form, function, shape, and evolution. Currently, my focus is on my masters thesis; using dental morphometrics to improve our understanding of mammalian evolution.

Outside of research, I have a passion for the outdoors including hiking, backpacking, and camping. I am also a major fan of the local and international drag scene.

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MY RESEARCH INTERESTS

"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work" - Thomas Edison

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EDUCATION IN POST-SECONDARY

One of my favourite aspects of my post-secondary education thus far has been the exposure to the variety of ways to learn. Researching about teaching and mentoring at the post-secondary level has been valuable to developing my own meta-cognitive learning skills.

GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS

Form and function are tightly integrated biological topics that I was exposed to as an undergraduate student. Describing phenotypic variation in shape is an asset to generating morphology based ecological, developmental, and evolutionary hypotheses.

ECO-EVO-DEVO

Evolution, ecology, and development are each their own unique and strong fields of biological sciences. In recent years, a focus on developmental and functional constraints has started to come about. I am interested in broad evolutionary questions that require an interdisciplinary approach from ecology, evolution, and developmental biology.

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