Although I work in vegetation, sometimes I get to hang out with the wildlife people. This pitfall trap, one of several dozen scattered across the park, helps us to understand mammal and reptile populations in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. At night, critters run along the mesh fabric and stumble into the traps. The next morning, anything caught is ID'd, its stats recorded, and then released.
I'm a Restoration Biologist at Joshua Tree National Park with the Great Basin Institute. I'm from Syracuse, NY where I went to school for Conservation Biology and Recreation Resource and Protected Area Management at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
I currently live in Boulder, CO:
Life is pretty cool. I try to document the life I observe with iNaturalist, a citizen science tool that allows users share and map observations of biodiversity across the globe.
Using crowd-sourced data available on iNaturalist, I've learned a lot about the phenological trends and distribution of flora in Joshua Tree NP, assisting with several of our monitoring projects. Come join!
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