She has worked on colonial nesting waterbirds for over two-decades. Her masters work (North Dakota State University) was on the foraging ecology of Forster’s terns and her PhD work (Memorial University of Newfoundland) was on the parental care of crested auklets. (She traveled a long ways to her study site in the Aleutian Islands for that work!) She has also done work on thick-billed murres, Leach’s storm petrels and Manx shearwaters in Newfoundland. Her current research is focused on double-crested cormorants and black-crowned night herons at Tommy Thompson Park.