I currently work as the Biodiversity Data Specialist at the California Academy of Science's Center for Biodiversity & Community Science. My job is to take iNaturalist observations of coastal (mostly intertidal) organisms (mostly collected through Snapshot Cal Coast bioblitzes) and use them in species distribution models to help forecast changes in species distributions and ranges that may occur with climate change. I do try and collect some iNaturalist observations of my own, too!

Check out some of our team's work with Snapshot Cal Coast observations here!

I live in the Santa Cruz area and have studied environmental and climate change impacts on marine organisms and ecosystems in California and Baja California for ~10 years.