She received her B.S. in Zoology and M.S. in Limnology and Oceanography from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology from Duke University. After working briefly as a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, she was hired by the College of Forestry and Conservation here in Montana. Her previous research has spanned a range of questions and ecosystems from examining chronic stress (low oxygen zones) and catastrophic disturbances (floods and hurricanes) on individuals, populations, and communities in estuaries, to exploring the role of population shifts on food web interactions and trophic transfer in lakes, to analyzing long-term community changes in desert stream fish communities. Research Interests: