To help scientists get the most out of their invaluable data I work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, as an IT specialist - R package developer. I maintain a collection of small computer programs that help forest ecologists access and analyse data on over six million trees, climate, carbon flux, invertebrates, soil organisms, and more. I belong to the Center for Tropical Forest Science and Forest Global Earth Observations (CTFS-ForestGEO).

I first joined the Smithsonian early in 2016. I researched how coral reefs in Bocas del Toro, Panama, have changed over the past 7,000 years in response to human impacts. I did a PhD in ecology (2015) at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a bachelors in marine biology (2008) at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.