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I am a PhD student in the Mola Lab and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University. Broadly, I am interested in how diet and nutrition influence resistance to disease and pesticides in bumblebees. I grew up in Ormond Beach, a small beach town in Florida, and I finished my BS in biology at Florida State University in 2024.
Before beginning my PhD at CSU, I spent two summers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Gothic, Colorado. My first summer in 2023, I was an REU student in the CaraDonna Lab investigating thermal tolerance limits in bumblebee species. In the summer of 2024, I was a technician on The Phenology Project, a long-term study which has been monitoring the distribution, abundance, and phenology of flowering plants since the 1970s.
In my free time, I enjoy hiking, camping, playing the violin, reading, working out, traveling with friends, and, more recently, climbing and cycling!
My favorite bee is Bombus bifarius.
A Bombus fraternus caught in the field.
A photo from the rearing room. This summer, we're rearing bumblebee colonies from wild-caught queens!
A Bombus huntii queen that we brought back to the lab to rear.
Bombus appositus foraging on Delphinium barbeyi.
A day in the field catching bumblebee queens! From left to right: Hannah, Keirs, Madi, and Laura.
An evening in the field helping lab mate Nicki Bailey with her experiment.
Taking saliva samples from a hummingbird with ecologist Dr. David Inouye.
First summer at RMBL in the CaraDonna Lab! From left to right: Hannah, Ceci, Paul, and Brayden.
Flower counts at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Running thermal tolerance trials on bumblebees in the field!
A morning in the rearing room checking in on some broody queens.
Photos from the field with undergraduates Keirs (left) and Madi (right)! Huge shoutout to these two for all their hard work!
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