I am a broadly trained environmental geographer and political ecologist interested in environmental philosophy, human dimensions of environmental change, climate justice, natural resource governance and conservation policy, and the role of emerging robotics, smart technologies, and big data analytics in producing novel encounters with and new understandings of nature. I also have expertise in conducting transdisciplinary action research. I have conducted research in Mexico, Australia, Oregon, southern Arizona and Los Angeles. My research draws on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological insights from political ecology, sustainability science, climate resilience, queer theory, digital geography, and spatial analysis & GIS.
My current research examines the role of robotics, automation, and autonomous technologies in shaping our resource extraction futures, including mining in ultra-deep underground environments, on the seafloor, and off-planet. I am intrigued by the ways big data environmental processing and analysis via complex algorithms increasingly shape environmental interventions and future imaginaries of human-environment relations.
