Research Administration:  
As an administrator of multiple research compliance programs and Research Integrity Officer since 2008, I have developed the philosophy that programs that promote ethical conduct and support the validity of research will almost always exceed the regulatory requirements and expectations of society. When the fundamental goals, ethics and integrity, are kept foremost in mind when developing programs, compliance with regulations becomes more efficient and acceptable to the research community.
 

Personal Research Interests:   
I focused on identifying and developing indices of ecological and physiological processes, particularly those processes affected by a potentially changing climate. Expressing physiologically based processes at a landscape scale is fraught with quantitative difficulties. For this reason, I have been involved with developing relevant indices of ecological behavior that are practical for modeling at a landscape scale. This perspective has aided in program management by factoring the relationships among the elements of the compliance and ethics environment.