Before joining the SPARC team, Joshua worked as a conservation biologist in Oregon, Utah, and Turkey. There, he studied the distribution and movement of mammals and birds and how their populations are reacting to anthropogenic change. He earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Utah in 2013. After several years working in the field, he returned to Utah and completed a PhD in 2019. When not working with data, Joshua likes to go trail running, birding, and camping with his partner Anna.