Category: Research Updates

After a busy year of working to understand the potential impacts of marine heatwaves in the northern Gulf of Mexico, I have finished my NASEM Gulf Research Program Science Policy fellowship with GCOOS. We managed to make some great progress, including creating some short reports on regional marine heatwave impacts (now available in English on…

I am happy to announce that, using professional development funds from the Science Policy Fellowship, I was able to get my ISA Certified Arborist credential! The last few months of studying have been a great chance to learn more about aspects of arboriculture that are less familiar to me (e.g. staking and cabling, how to…

This past April, I was lucky enough to participate in the Building Future Faculty program hosted by the Office for Faculty Excellence at NC State University! It was an incredible opportunity to meet a group of talented and driven colleagues across disciplines, get to meet some of the faculty within the College of Natural Resources,…

After a wonderful training in Washington DC with the other Science Policy Fellows, I am now in College Station, TX starting work with the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS)! I am excited to work with the team here connecting marine heatwaves to coastal and nearshore terrestrial temperatures. I will be focusing on…

I have successfully defended by Ph.D. in Ecology from Duke University! I will be spending this summer wrapping up projects from my dissertation, and will share updates on those projects as I wrap them up. For those who are curious, you can see a recording of my public defense talk below. This fall, I will…