I am a **computational anthropologist** interested in human responses to environmental change. I am currently the Director of the Research Institute and William D. Lipe Chair in Research at the
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
; a research associate with the
Montana Climate Office
at the University of Montana; and an hourly assistant research professor in the
Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at the Desert Research Institute
. I live in Missoula, Montana with my husband John and our golden retriever Molly. With the Montana Climate Office, I am part of the Montana Drought and Climate project (MTDrought), where we are working to transform existing climate forecasts and projections into innovative and relevant climate information that meets agricultural producer needs and communicates relevant details in compelling and useful formats. With the Desert Research Institute, I am a researcher with the
Native Waters on Arid Lands project
, where we collaborate with Native American tribes across the West to understand the impacts of climate change and to evaluate adaptation options for sustaining water resources and agriculture on tribal reservations. I develop
software
— in
*R*
,
*Python*
, and
*GRASS*
— to support reproducible research in archaeology and climate change. I am particularly interested in scalable analysis, high performance computing, and data visualization. Most of my archaeological research has focused on the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest (as part of the
Village Ecodynamics Project
), but past and ongoing projects include research on the
Northwest Coast of North America
and on the
Tibetan Plateau
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