Carly is an ORISE postdoctoral fellow with the USDA Forest Service and the Outdoor Recreation and Data Lab in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. She earned her PhD in developmental psychology at UW, where her research investigated how older children’s and adolescents’ exposure to and interaction with nature, parks, and green spaces supports their mental health, physical activity, and developing sense of resilience. Carly’s current postdoctoral research utilizes large language models to understand how recreators of all ages experience landscapes affected by wildfire. Across projects, she enjoys combining advanced quantitative methods, such as machine learning and mixed-effects and structural equation models, with qualitative methods.