I’m a biogeochemical oceanographer and a current NSF Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Lab. I am jointly advised by Dr. Ali Chase (APL-UW), Asst. Prof. Alison Gray (UW Oceanography), and Dr. Andrea Fassbender (NOAA PMEL). I am also a UW Data Science Postdoc Fellow at the eScience Institute. I work broadly on bio-physical processes impacting carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean using BGC-Argo float observations. I was previously a CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies) postdoctoral fellow. Before starting my postdoc at the University of Washington, I was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), working with Prof. Sebastiaan Swart. This research experience helped me pivot from ship-based field work to autonomous platforms.
I completed my PhD in Earth System Science at Stanford University with Prof. Kevin Arrigo, during which I studied phytoplankton photoacclimation using ship-based in situ experiments in the Ross Sea (Southern Ocean), western Antarctic Peninsula (Southern Ocean), Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean) and Baffin Bay (Arctic Ocean).