Understudied groups of animals like snails have significant gaps in our understanding of their diversity and biology. My work fills in these gaps by surveying for them in places they have not previously been discovered, describing the new species we encounter, and providing the evidence for effective conservation of these species.

My recent work has largely deal with Texas taxa, examining diversity of land snails as well as freshwater spring and cave snails. However, I am also working on spring snails across the Western United States with projects circumscribing species in the hyper-diverse spring snail genus Pyrgulopsis.