Graduate Student

I’m a recent graduate student from Moss Landing Marine Labs, and my thesis was on the kelp forest canopies of the Monterey Bay area. I used old aerial photographs from the 1980s to see how the canopy changed over time and space, and have found that the region-wide canopy is quite predictable, but varies substantially at small spatial scales. My day job is working as a marine biologist in Glacier Bay, Alaska. There I study the effects of sea otters (1800 of them!) on subtidal marine communities as they move back into the bay after being gone for over 200 years. But Glacier Bay wasn’t cold enough for me, so that’s why I’m going to Antarctica! While in Antarctica, I’ll also be working on a side-project in addition to Stacy’s study, in which I’ll be looking at the effects of penguin guano on marine communities at Cape Royds (at the ice edge).

A little less conversation a little more karate.