Progress Makes a PhD

My Graduate Work in the Roberts’ Lab at the University of Washington

Straddling the line between classic ecological methods and cutting- edge molecular techniques, I am a Marine Molecular Ecologist studying nearshore ecosystems in Puget Sound and the greater Salish Sea. While my graduate work is dominantly focused on conservation ecology, it can also be readily applied to aquaculture and sustainable food systems. The stars of the show are marine invertebrates, mostly foundational species like mussels, but the underlying driver is the exploration of the relationship dynamics between human and non-human kin. Ultimately, I want to understand how human-induced environmental changes influence nearshore communities at different scales from sub-organismal all the way up to the ecosystem level.