Background:
I am an incoming Assistant Professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources starting Fall 2026. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Skelly Lab at Yale University. I completed my PhD at the University of Florida in the Scheffers Lab (2019-2024), prior to which I held data science and GIS positions at the Smithsonian, conducted biodiversity monitoring for an agroforestry NGO in the Peruvian Amazon, and graduated in 2017 from Dartmouth College. In my research, I employ observational, experimental, and computational approaches to explore how climate change and land use change both shape biodiversity and the environment from local to global scales. I attempt to be a “full-stack” ecologist, engaging in ecological research from empirical data collection (namely in Madagsacar) to data curation to statistical and mathematical modeling to application for real-world conservation and management.
See Dave’s lab website
Experience
