About Me

Hi my name is Joy! I am a current PhD student in David Miller’s Applied Population Ecology Lab @ Penn State studying how to improve model estimates and predictions for salamander conservation and disease risk.

I’m dedicated to lifelong learning and discovery!

Some professional things I love learning about:

• Dealing with issues of spatial and temporal scale (and linking these scales to relevant ecological scales)
• Applying bayesian statistics to ecological problems
• Any organism with a cool or unique ecology!

Fun things I love learning about:

• Creating DND campaigns/oneshots (not detection non detection although I like this too…I’m talking dungeons and dragons!)
• High end clothing; specifically mindful craftsmanship and environmentally conscious materials (we are anti-polyester here)
• Vampire lore (don’t ask me why specifically vampires, this has been a lifelong obsession that I can’t explain)

Want to chat? Send me an email!

Photo Gallery:

A beautiful red cheek salamander taken awhile ago in the Smokies.

This is the lab. We are having fun here.