Jayme completed her PhD at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, where her research combined spatial ecology and phylogenetic information to help evaluate the biodiversity impacts of anthropogenic change on Canadian butterfly species. Since moving to California, she has begun focusing on Californian pollinators and has grown increasingly concerned about the impacts of pesticides on this group.
Her postdoc will look at potential solutions to mitigate these impacts, whether that is through targeted subsides to farmers to reduce pesticide use in areas of high native pollinator diversity or strategic placement of protected areas under California’s 30×30 initiative, which aims to set aside 30% of California’s land by 2030.
To do this work, she harnesses community-sourced data (such as from iNaturalist) and museum records and uses advanced statistical models to overcome many of the biases inherent in these data.
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