Scholarships, Fellowships
& Awards

• UNC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2024

• ​P.E.O. Scholars Award, 2023

• UNC Graduate Tuition Incentive Scholarship, 2023

• Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society Teaching Assistant Award, 2023

• UNC Gilbert Travel Award, 2022

• UNC Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, 2021

  • ​​Gordon W. and Janice L. Plumblee Summer Research Fellowship

• Forest Lake Area Community Scholarship Foundation Master’s Award, 2020-2023

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal Honorable Mention, 2020

• Excellence in Academics and Research Award, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2019

• Best Student Competition Finalist for the Marlene Zuk Award, 2019

• Bio REU Travel Grant, 2018

• University of Minnesota Duluth Mowbry Scholarship, 2017

• National Council on Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Grant, 2017

• University of Minnesota Duluth Study Abroad Scholarship, 2017

• Minnesota American Fisheries Society Scholarship, 2017

• Biology Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2016

Presentations

Presenting Author

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1. "Effect of a strong magnetic pulse on the map sense of loggerhead sea turtles", The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 2024

2. "Neural patterns of magnetoreception in poison frogs", ZooNav Seminar, 2023.

3. "Magnetoreception: a sensory biology enigma", Neural Systems and Behavior Course, 2023.

4. "Effect of radiofrequency on geomagnetic sense of flounder", The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 2023.

5. "Exploring the neurobiology of magnetoreception with Oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau)", ZooNav Seminar, 2022.

6. "Magnetic sense of Oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau)", The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 2022.

7. "Effects of anthropogenic vessel sound on oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau)", The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 2019.

8. "Localizing individual oyster toadfish, (Opsanus tau) boatwhistles using passive acoustics", Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium, 2018.

9. "Using passive acoustics to determine the effect of abiotic and biotic sound on oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau) vocalizations", The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 2018.

10. "Using passive acoustics to determine the effect of abiotic and biotic sound on oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau) vocalizations", Biological Laboratory Undergraduate Symposium, 2017.

11. "Auditory sensitivity of invasive bighead (Hypothalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix)", Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium, 2017.

12. "Long-term exposure of bighead (Hypothalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix) to broadband sound", National Council on Undergraduate Research, 2017.

13. "Long Term Exposure of Bighead (Hypothalmichthys nobilis) and Silver Carp (H. molitrix) to Broadband Sound", Biology Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology Symposium, 2016.

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Contributor

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1. "Spontaneous magnetic orientation in poison frogs", The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 2024

2. "Seasonal changes in male oyster toadfish’s response to boatwhistle playbacks", Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2020.

3. "Effects of anthropogenic sound on oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau)", Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2020.

4. "Long term Pam to investigate temporal and anthropogenic effects on oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau) mating vocalizations", Acoustical Society of America Conference, 2019.

5. "Using passive acoustics to localize vocalizing oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau)", Acoustical Society of America Conference, 2018.