Charlotte is a macroecologist and global change biologist interested in how the interacting effects of climate change and resource declines impact animals, particularly birds. Her dissertation research topics include understanding the causes and consequences of morphological variation across space and time, the contributions of resource declines to phenological mismatch, and sublethal effects of heat waves on ecosystems. She uses various methods including museum specimens, field experiments, statistical modeling of big data, and bioacoustics, and has worked at sites including the University of Michigan Biological Station and Long Point Bird Observatory.

In the past, Charlotte has researched Allen’s Rule in desert birds, roosting behaviors in Chimney Swifts, and bird species distributions in the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. When she’s not studying birds, you can find her trying to visit all 162 of Ann Arbor’s parks, thinking about environmental ethics, or learning to ice skate.