
Phytoplankton Growth in Future Oceans
In my new role, I am researching how phytoplankton will evolve under future ocean CO2 and temperature conditions. See link for more details.
Hello! I am an early career ocean scientist with an interest in microorganisms and how they shape our environment. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York with Dr. Sarah Hurley and Dr. Sonya Dyhrman. I did my graduate work in the MIT and WHOI Joint Program working with the Van Mooy Lab where I studied global factors affecting the biogeochemical cycling of lipids. I have worked previously in the Apprill Lab studying microbes and fats in whale digestion. I also work on open source software tools to make environmental science faster and easier. Feel free to contact me using any of the channels below.
See some recent highlights, news articles, and things I am working on below.
In my new role, I am researching how phytoplankton will evolve under future ocean CO2 and temperature conditions. See link for more details.
In 2024, I published lipidomic profiles of microbes from seasonal sea ice - an extremophile environment with importance for Antarctic food webs.
In 2021, I took part in a NASA/WHOI funded expedition to examine sinking carbon. Check out a blog by WHOI highlighting the expedition below. (photo credit Marley Parker)
Together with members of the Van Mooy Lab, in 2022 I published a wide survey of surface ocean lipidomes which showed a strong link to water temperature.
I performed the lipid analysis for a 2019 Apprill + Van Mooy Lab collaboration that found insights into bowhead whales digestion of wax esters.