Biography

I am an interdisciplinary oceanographer with a primary research focus on physical-biological interactions in hotspots of rapid change, using in-situ measurements from ships, global observing system data, and numerical models. I am especially interested in how glacial meltwater and sea ice cover changes affects phytoplankton growth in the subpolar North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean, and in how changing Gulf Stream dynamics influences primary productivity on the U.S. northeast continental shelf and slope. In 2019, I received my PhD from the University of Georgia and came to the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department as a postdoctoral scholar, and joined the scientific staff in 2021.