I a PhD candidate in Natural Resources at University of Tennessee. I have focused most of my recent research on the full annual and life cycle ecology of Cerulean Warblers. I have a total of nearly 15 years of field research experience involving warbler demographic studies, bat surveying and telemetry, Allegheny woodrat trapping and telemetry, marine fisheries observing, and coal mine/unplugged gas well - impacted stream monitoring.