She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Spatial History Project and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, at Stanford University, and also at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley after completing her PhD work at CSTARS. Her research focuses on understanding the impacts of anthropogenic change on species and ecosystem distributions, and how are they mitigated by conservation. To answer these questions she focus on the what (species and ecosystems), when (time), where (space), how (conservation actions) and why (policies and drivers) of conservation action. Her research incorporates field methods, GIS, remote sensing, statistical modeling, historical archival research and conservation planning.