PhD Student in Ecological and Environmental Informatics
Northern Arizona University (In Progress)
Ph.D. Informatics and Computing— Ecological and Environmental Informatics
Advisor- Kiona Ogle
4.0 GPA
University of California, Berkeley (2019)
B.S. Molecular Environmental Biology— Ecology concentration
3.6 GPA
USGS Intern/ Graduate Research Assistant (2022)
T3 Ecoinformatics Fellow (2021)
Graduate Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University (2020)
Research Assistant, UC Berkeley, Ackerly Lab (2017-19) - Collaborated on project on vulnerability to embolism in California oaks led by Dr. Robert Skelton and Dr. Leander Anderegg.
Field Biologist/Student Researcher, Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station, Mo’orea, French Polynesia (2018)
Research Assistant, UC Berkeley, Sousa Lab (2017)
Research Assistant, UC Berkeley, Koehl Lab (2016)
Research Assistant, UC Berkeley, Looy Lab (2016)
Field Technician, National Ecological Observatory Network, Alaska (2019)
Prep Room Assistant, UC Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology (2018-19)
Reich, E., Samuels-Crow, K. E., Braford, J., Litvak, M. E., Schlaepfer, D., and K. Ogle. Water-use efficiency predictors along an aridity gradient. Presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau and Southwest Region (2022).
Ogle, K., Reich, E., Samuels-Crow, K. E., Litvak, M. E., Braford, J., and D. Schlaepfer. A mixture modeling approach for imputing missing environmental time-series data: Application to soil water content along an elevation gradient. Poster presented at ESA Meeting (2022).
Reich, E., Samuels-Crow, K. E., Litvak, M. E., and K. Ogle. Partitioning evapotranspiration in drylands using eddy covariance fluxes and ECOSTRESS data. Poster presented at ESA Meeting (2021).
Samuels-Crow, K. E., Reich, E., Litvak, M. E., and K. Ogle. Across semiarid ecosystems, evapotranspiration responds to environmental drivers over longer timescales when conditions are dry. Poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting (2020).
Skelton, R. P., Anderegg, L. D. L., Papper, P., Reich, E., Dawson, T. E., Kling, M., Thompson, S. E., Diaz, J., and D. D. Ackerly. 2019. No local adaptation in leaf or stem xylem vulnerability to embolism, but consistent vulnerability segmentation in a North American oak. New Phytologist. doi.org/10.1111/nph.15886
Reich, E. The acclimatization and susceptibility to grazing of crustose coralline algae from thermally variable and stable environments. Poster presented at the Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium (2019). Talk presented at UC Berkeley Integrative Biology department symposium (2018).
NASA FINESST recipient (2022-2025)
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention (2021)
NAU T3 Fellowship recipient (2020-2021)
NAU Presidential Fellowship Award recipient (2020-2024)
NAU Informatics Broadening Participation Committee officer/founder. An organization of graduate students with the aim to foster participation from underrepresented groups in science.
Transcriptions Magazine editor/contributor. An online zine with the goal of building community space for scientists who are trans, non-binary, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming.
International Society of Non-binary Scientists member. An international community to build solidarity among non-binary scientists.
Wilderness First Aid and CPR (2019)
NSF Arctic Field Training (2019)
Fall 2022
Applied Bayesian Modeling
Spring 2022
Large-scale Data Structures and Organization
Visualizing Scientific Results
Ethics and Strategies in Science Communication
Fall 2021
Software Development & Methodologies
Team-based Research
Research Methods in Informatics and Computing
Spring 2021
Ecological Modeling
Modern Regression II
Data Mining & Machine Learning
Fall 2020
Advanced Survey in Ecoinformatics Tools
Modern Regression I
Concepts in Ecology
Spring 2019
Stable Isotope Ecology (completed during undergraduate degree)