Hi! My name is Brandi, I am from the Okefenokee region of south Georgia. I am a Research Scientist at Tall Timbers in the Fire Ecology Lab. I am curious about all wildlife but I am particularly enamored with plants. I have a wide range of interests and skillsets associated with plant science. As an undergraduate, I helped to refine a protocol for extracting DNA from Spanish moss and did some exploratory work on cross-species transference of microsatellite DNA primers for Spanish moss, I also spent time doing fieldwork for a spatial analysis project. While pursuing my undergraduate I worked on and published an Asimina and Deeringothamnus phylogenetics paper. I also worked in herbaria and curating the VSU entomology collections. I published work on citizen science and INaturalist. I finished my Master's thesis in 2019 at VSU examining T. usneoides Biomechanics. After graduating I worked at Ichauway, Tall Timbers, The Barn Group, and Little St Simons Island. If you are interested in botanizing with me please send me a message! I am always excited to be in the field!