Bio

Matilda is the invasive species and climate change intern for the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC), working with the NW RISCC Network to research and create an invasive species management brief. She will be researching the effects of climate change on the spread and impacts of ticks in the Northwest. With this project, she aims to create a helpful resource for diverse audiences, ranging from the general public to land managers to researchers across disciplines.

Prior to her internship with NW CASC, Matilda acquired her bachelor’s degree in environmental science and terrestrial resource management from the University of Washington. She completed an undergraduate thesis, which quantified Douglas-fir beetle density across different stand ages in a managed forest and examined the management implications of her findings. Before that, Matilda worked as a field research intern at Charles L. Pack Experimental Forest and worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the university’s Disturbance Ecology Lab, helping manage large datasets, inoculating samples for graduate student projects and processing samples. 

In her free time, Matilda enjoys dancing Lindy hop, drawing and doing scientific illustration and preservation. She also enjoys playing overly complicated boardgames and baking!