photos

2025

chinese alangium (Alangium chinensis) spreading at Morven Farm

helping out with amphibian migrations @ Vassar!

a very timid barn swallow

beautiful “bushwhack” at Mohonk Preserve

amazing fabulous native beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)

red maples ready for spring

sometimes the best way to get down is via butt scoot

chinese alangium naturalizing at Morven

and sometimes your friend follows your method…

presenting at ESA 2025 in Baltimore

fall colors from tupelo

research trees: flagged!

fox getting business done.. but how cute!

hepatica in alabamica!

me next to a very deep cave… Alabama

another huge cave in Bama

it is water!!!!

baby twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla) germinated from wild seed!

lab dinner @ Bang!

i <3 marsh marigold (Caltha palustris)

me at UVA for prospective students day (Feb)

Meghan next to our trusty steed in Alabama! a UTV!

me and a huge tupelo at Mohonk Preserve

Mia showing the forestry slingshot who’s boss @ Blandy

surveying tupelo & collecting seeds @ Mohonk

funky growth pattern tupelo @ Mohonk

scouting for tupelo @ Mohonk

breakfast during the bushwhack

captured the excitement of seeing the native Callicarpa for the first time

Northeast Natural History Conference 2025

Northeast Natural History Conference 2025

crazy tupelo bark @ Mohonk

oval ladies’ tresses in Alabama!

this barred owl and i became close friends my last few weeks at Vassar

pawpaw! so much! @ SCBI

canada mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) at Edith Roberts Ecological Laboratory

potting up our oaks!

helping out with a prescribed burn @ Piedmont Discovery Center

ramps… so vulnerable yet persistent..?

weeding the red columbine plot!

roll tide!!

forest slingshotting at SCBI

serving with the slingshot

scorpion!! in alabama!! southern devil scorpion! (Vaejovis carolinianus)

only documentation from a seed collection workshop i hosted with landscape arch @ UVA

spotted lanternfly obliterating a red maple

native euonymus!!! (Euonymus americanus)

sweetgum with WINGS!

transplanting trillium at Vassar: part one

transplanting trillium at Vassar: part two

on the prowl for tupelo seeds @ Mohonk

tupelo seeds all cleaned up!

walnut caterpillar moth! (Datana integerrima)

2024

baby bobcats! @ Vassar

little seedling bladdernuts growing! (Staphylea trifolia)

baby coyote at Vassar!

golden Alexander seedlings (Zizia aurea)

white pine seedling! (Pinus strobus)

leading a tree hike on Mt Beacon, NY!

finding the elusive canada lily! (Lileum canadense)

she’s blooming! (Lilium canadense)

beautiful cardinal flower! (Lobelia carindalis)

safely getting chestnuts from a (hybrid) chestnut tree

coyote posing on a trail cam

most beautiful wetland i’ve ever been in

who isn’t this excited when finding cardinal flower?!

giant button bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

golden alexander (Zizia aurea) cleaned seed

beautiful baby white oaks!

absolutely monstrous hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

little hackberry cotyledonos

we’re so happy scouting for plants!

winged monkeyflower (Mimulus ringens)

beautiful obedient plant

if i was aquilegia… where would i grow?

astoundingly gorgeous poke milkweed (Asclepias exaltata)

seed baggies and beautiful red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

putting seed bags on some northern bush honeysuckle

talking about seeds and Vassar’s program to some affiliate partners!

fresh baby plants grown from seed!

DIY seed tornado to clean some milkweed seeds

first spotted lanternfly at Vassar… caught in a seed bag

swamp milkweed seed amplification plot in full bloom!

and then came the seeds…

a little variegated sugar maple came up in germinations!

me and a waterfall at Bard

whorled loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia) seed collection

jugs on jugs of winter sown native plants!

and a wonky deer…

2023

ascending/ descending

baby barred owls in their nest… Vassar Preserve

scenic view at Kenauk

gorgeous bunchberry… Cornus canadensis

chinese yam (Dioscorea polystacha) at Vassar Preserve

peat bog cotton grass (Eriophorum spp.) at Kenauk

eastern leatherwood (Dirca palustris), my first time!

earth star fungus @ Vassar Preserve

helping out with electrofishing

helping to keep maples under drought @ Kenauk

Canada summer field work… nearby fire!

and then there was the flood… @ Kenauk

well fed garter snake (Thamnophis spp.)!

someone’s gotta clear these roads

my lovely pod for the summer @ Kenauk

in a peat bog!! @ Kenauk

climbing trees (with gear) for survey work @ Kenauk

loon monitoring on Lac Papineau

marginal (notice the sori) wood fern (Dryopteris marginalis)

moose!!!!! two youngins!!!! @ Kenauk

moose tracks @ Kenauk

Lac Papineau at sunset

pickerelweed! all that purple! (Pontederia cordata) @ Kenauk

purple pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea)!! in a bog!! with sphagnum!! @ Kenauk

purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) flower

good ol’ porcupine @ Kenauk

water line prior to and post beaver dam breaking flood @ Kenauk

pretty little stream @ Kenauk

summer crew for Kenauk!

bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) @ Vassar Preserve in the fall

climbing @ Kenauk

variegated striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum) @ Kenauk

variegated red maple (Acer rubrum) @ Kenauk

the rain can’t stop us from falling in love with a pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule)

2022

plot @ Acadia NP

into the bush (Assateague NSS)

baby basswood (Tilia americana)

barberry forest @ Morristown NHP

beech leaf disease @ Morristown NHP circa 2022

box turtle & duct tape boots

a bust! unexpected?!

easy casual walk

Marcos, Jamie & I w/ Assateague Ponies

HWA in Acadia NP circa 2022

just a lil buggy @ Assateague NSS

classic DBH + frog)

sand selfie! Assateague NSS

oooh yeah driving on the beach

there are horses back there somewhere

to be a fern… Saratoga NHP

pines (loblolly(?)) at Assateague NSS

plot center… center of the season!

poison… ivy… shrub..?

horse exclosure area. Assateague NSS

gnarliest smi-rot ever

seed ticks. yuck!

talk about regen.. or lack thereof. stiltgrass. Valley Forge NHP

pollen in the air! Saratoga NHP

climbing a sugar maple in Canada!

gotta zoom in

trees marked at DBH height in a permanent monitoring plot in Acadia NP. peep the sphagnum!

trotting away from the fly-free sand at Assateague NSS

the cotyledons of tilia americana… what a joy. high five!

the cotyledons of tilia americana… what a joy. high five!

a bust in the plot at Saint Gaudens NAP

you may have to squint

booo tomato tomato

all the mosquitoes…