My central goal as a research scientist is to find ways to use data we already have to answer what I feel are some of the most important questions facing nature conservation today.

I've worked on freshwater, marine and terrestrial systems, at local, national and global scales. Unifying this diversity of research is the central theme of tackling questions pertinent to ongoing efforts to converse imperilled biodiversity. To identify these questions, I often work in partnership with conservation practitioners. At present I am particularly interested in understanding how ecosystem services and incentives, such as payments for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), can be used to leverage support for conservation. In my research, I use tools from ecological economics, spatial modelling, decision science and meta-analyses.