I am best described as an outdoorsy nerd. I enjoy field work and climbing, as well as puzzles, quantitative problems, and models. My research interests focus on small-scale physical-biological interactions in the ocean, especially their implications for transport of plankton or sediment. At Princeton, I work with Laure Resplandy and Jessica Luo to investigate the impact of these interactions on the biological carbon pump.

In the past, I worked with a team at Rutgers University and the University of Maine to study how larval responses to flow conditions affect their transport throughout Delaware Bay and the Mid-Atlantic Bight. For my PhD, I investigated internal wave transport by deploying a swarm of planktonic robots, the Mini-Autonomous Underwater Explorers, built by the Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging at Scripps Oceanography.

I am very passionate about making programming, math, and science more useful and enjoyable for everyone. Feel free to use any of the code I developed and reach out to me if you have questions. Among others, you will find introductory material to R for oceanographers, from a class I developed and taught with Eiren Jacobson, as well as outreach activities to learn programming for projects with the Ocean Discovery Institute and the United World Challenge.