All of that school amounted to something.

I am happy to announce that in February I joined the San Francisco Estuary Institute as an Environmental Scientist with the Urban Nature Lab in the Resilient Landscapes program. Environmental Scientist is bit of a generalized HR name in place for what I really do, which is work with amazing teams of ecologists, landscape architects, and designers to apply ecological theory and practice to biodiversity conservation and sustainability planning in urban landscapes.

I am still working remotely from home, so--although my physical office is in Richmond, California, nestled on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay--I've returned to the towering redwoods and slinking banana slugs of Santa Cruz. The place where my formal educational journey really began. It's been pretty amazing to roam some of my old haunts and think back to my burgeoning interest in conservation science & planning, natural history, and agroecology. Somehow, I managed to turn those early exciting moments of discovery into a lifelong career. I feel pretty grateful.