Research

2017
Botanist, Wetland assessment, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

2015
Field Technician, Oak Savannah Restoration project, Tennessee and North Carolina

2013-2016
Thesis: A Floristic Ecological Survey of Seepage Fens in the Western Highland Rim of Tennessee

2014
Field Botanist, Ocoee River Gorge, Tennessee; Clark's River Wildlife Refuge, Kentucky; Land-Between-the-Lakes, Kentucky

2012
Field Assistant in the Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming. Rodent trapping

2011
Undergraduate Research, Comparing a visual estimation method to the use of acorn traps to determine an appropriate method for correlating mast production to Red-headed Woodpecker abundance in a bottomland hardwood forest

2011
Field Investigations: A study of avian diversity and similarity in an estuary at St. Andrew's Bay State Park, Florida

Web applications

The following web applications were developed using Java Servlets, JSPs, JQuery, Javascript, ArcGIS Javascript API, and MySQL utilizing a MVC (Model/View/Controller) framework.

Kentucky Plant Altas This atlas was developed in conjunction with and supported by Dr. Julian Campbell, and Dr. Max E. Medley, utilizing data that was collected, verified and maintained throughout many years of botanical work in the state of Kentucky.

Tennessee Plant Altas This atlas currently includes rare plant data from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Natural Heritage Inventory Program.

Bio

Judy resides on the family farm in Hickman County, Tennessee and attributes her interested in plants and the natural world to her childhood spent roaming the hills and hollows of middle Tennessee.

Education

Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, Tennessee
Master of Science in Biology with a Botany Thesis

University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, Tennessee
Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Ecology and Environmental Biology

Columbia State Community College
Columbia, Tennessee
Associate of Science in Computer Science