I am interested in understanding the processes that govern vegetation structural heterogeneity in savanna ecosystems. My research utilizes high resolution 3D LiDAR data, focusing on fire-regimes and inquiring quantitatively about the fire-vegetation structure relationships, as well as how these relationships transform across topographic and climatic gradients. My path to these research interests were built during the PhD studies in Shaun Levick’s group at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany. During my PhD studies, I assessed the response of vegetation structure to 63 years of experimental fire manipulation in South Africa's Kruger National Park. In the Davies lab, I’m using a combination of UAV 3D LiDAR data, thermal and RGB photos to understand fire behavior (spatial spread and intensity) and effects of ~ 7 decades of fire manipulation on aboveground biomass across Kruger National Park. Along with research projects, I’m involved in geospatial data processing and development of data products from UAV acquired data. Other research interests include scaling vegetation structure estimates from landscape to regional scale with spaceborne Radar data.