I am broadly interested in plant responses to wildfire and drought in a changing climate. Anthropogenic climate change and alterations to historical fire regimes (e.g., via wildfire suppression) have led to intense wildfires and increasing uncertainty surrounding what vegetation communities may or may not dominate the landscape after wildfires occur. Consequently, my research focuses on post-fire recovery in the Sierra Nevadas, investigating community vegetation dynamics after high severity wildfire, physiological limitations to conifer recovery, and dynamics between pioneer shrub species and young conifers. Additionally, I am interested in how leaf chemistry plays a role in plant flammability relative to drought stress metrics, leaf morphology, and branch morphology and how this could potentially help explain or predict changes in fire behavior. Through collaboration with various state and federal organizations, I aim for applicable and impactful research with explicit implications for climate-adaptive land management