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2017: For my master's dissertation, I studied the effects of habitat structure on mixed-species flocks in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot of India. I walked transects in the Kali Tiger Reserve in south India, and learned to identify several insectivorous mainly through their calls. I found that nuclear species leading these groups were directing where others would forage, showing that leaders play an important role in how followers used their habitat
Publication: Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India​​

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2018: I worked as the editorial assistant for a 265-page report that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India put together detailing to showcase at the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference (COP24), detailing the effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the subcontinent.. I was a co-author on a chapter synthesizing the report's results and recommendations, and I copy-edited the work of experts in the field and facilitated research and coordination for several chapters.
Publication: Biodiversity and climate change: an Indian perspective​​

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2019: As a research assistant at the Nature Conservation Foundation, I investigated whether active restoration was better than allowing forests to naturally regenerate, with a species focus on rainforest species. I found that in heterogeneous landscapes, native tree planting allows rainforest species to recover, and can be an important complement to the conservation of existing protectead areas.
Publication: Active restoration fosters better recovery of tropical rainforest birds than natural regeneration in degraded forest fragments​​

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2020: I assisted an effort to examine the effect of chance, serendipity, mentorship, failure and inspiration from natural history experience on the science and results of famous ecologists and evolutionary biologists. To do so, I compiled information from the backstories of these scientists about how their paper came to be, and organized their interview answers by theme. 

Website: Reflections on papers past