I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1993 with a B.S. in biology. I spent two summers taking classes at the University of Michigan Biological Station, where I first met Ann and Steve.

I am studying reproductive strategies and the maintenance of sexual dimorphism in wild-strawberries, Fragaria virginiana, in populations in the California Lake Tahoe Basin of the Sierra Nevada.  Fragaria virginiana is a long-lived perennial herb.  Females produce vestigial anthers and their sex expression is constant.  Pollen producing morphs are labile in their sex expression and can produce staminate as well as perfect flowers.  Seed production in pollen producing morphs is positively correlated with size. Seed production by polleniferous morphs is variable among populations in the Lake Tahoe Basin.  There are several populations in my study system that may best be described as dioecious because female allocation by pollen producing morphs is so rare, but the system also contains populations where seed production in a common part of the life history of pollen producing morphs.