Meet the Webmaster

Salix is the name of the genus containing the willow trees. It is thought that the Latin word comes from the Celtic words sal, 'near', and lis, 'water'. Fittingly, these trees are common inhabitants of wetlands in subtropic, temperate, and arctic regions.

I have always loved willows. Spotting the graceful silhouette of these trees is a welcomed site when working in a wetland. As an undergraduate college student, I spent my first summer of fieldwork planting trees, some of which were willows. To the right is a picture from that summer of me sitting in a Bebb's willow, Salix bebbiana. Additionally, Willow Rosenberg is my favorite character from the show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," one of my favorite TV shows.

I am a 20-something-year-old woman living in the eastern United States. When I am not hiking or working in the woods, I enjoy creating surreal collages from images found in secondhand books/magazines, reading anything from sci-fi or fantasy to nonfiction, and watching old TV shows/movies while cuddling with my two rescue pitties. Some other hobbies I have collected recently include crocheting (I like challenging myself to only use secondhand yarn), playing games on my childhood DS (it's rose gold and has the decrepit remains of Littlest Pet Shop stickers plastered on it), routinely completing the daily Wordle (I started doing this puzzle instead of doomscrolling when I first wake up), and coding this website (my hope is to translate this skill to learning R lol).