I have an MS in Biological Oceanography from Texas A&M (2004), and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2008), specializing in marine invertebrate physiology and behavior, benthic biogeochemistry, remote sensing, climate variability, and surface-to-seafloor connectivity. My Master’s research involved the deployment of a time-lapse camera and temperature probes on the Gulf of Mexico continental shelf at a gas hydrate chemosynthetic community to study topographic and population changes over time. For my Ph.D., I focused on a site in the abyssal Northeast Pacific, to examine whether echinoid populations changed significantly between 1989 and 2007, if these possible changes were correlated to food supply and surface conditions/climate, and how bioturbation affected deep-sea sediment chemistry. I also completed a 2-year postdoc at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) as part of the Deep-ocean Environmental Long-term Observatory Systems (DELOS) project. DELOS is an ongoing environmental impact study in Angola, where I assisted in the assembly and deployment of the first autonomous deep-sea observatory in the Southeast Atlantic Ocean.
I joined Oregon State University in January 2011, as a Project Scientist during the construction phase of OOI, and spent four years assisting with the design, testing, and deployment of the instruments and infrastructure of the OOI Endurance Array off the coast of Oregon and Washington. I then spent three years as the OOI Cyberinfrastructure Data Manager at Rutgers University, working with a multidisciplinary team to create high-density, quality-controlled, open-access data sets for use in research, education, and outreach. Since 2018, I have worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Washington on the OOI Regional Cabled Array testing and deploying instrumentation on the cabled network, sailing as chief and co-chief scientists, managing the flow and quality control of streaming, real-time data, working on new user interface and data delivery software, and collaborating on analyses and presentation(s) of OOI data.
I have an MS in Biological Oceanography from Texas A&M (2004), and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2008), specializing in marine invertebrate physiology and behavior, benthic biogeochemistry, remote sensing, climate variability, and surface-to-seafloor connectivity. My Master’s research involved the deployment of a time-lapse camera and temperature probes on the Gulf of Mexico continental shelf at a gas hydrate chemosynthetic community to study topographic and population changes over time. For my Ph.D., I focused on a site in the abyssal Northeast Pacific, to examine whether echinoid populations changed significantly between 1989 and 2007, if these possible changes were correlated to food supply and surface conditions/climate, and how bioturbation affected deep-sea sediment chemistry. I also completed a 2-year postdoc at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) as part of the Deep-ocean Environmental Long-term Observatory Systems (DELOS) project. DELOS is an ongoing environmental impact study in Angola, where I assisted in the assembly and deployment of the first autonomous deep-sea observatory in the Southeast Atlantic Ocean.
I joined Oregon State University in January 2011, as a Project Scientist during the construction phase of OOI, and spent four years assisting with the design, testing, and deployment of the instruments and infrastructure of the OOI Endurance Array off the coast of Oregon and Washington. I then spent three years as the OOI Cyberinfrastructure Data Manager at Rutgers University, working with a multidisciplinary team to create high-density, quality-controlled, open-access data sets for use in research, education, and outreach. Since 2018, I have worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Washington on the OOI Regional Cabled Array testing and deploying instrumentation on the cabled network, sailing as chief and co-chief scientists, managing the flow and quality control of streaming, real-time data, working on new user interface and data delivery software, and collaborating on analyses and presentation(s) of OOI data.
