About
I am a marine ecologist and am currently a PhD candidate in the Earth2Ocean research group at Simon Fraser University, supervised by Dr. Isabelle Côté.
My research passions revolve around nearshore coastal habitats like seagrass and kelps. Beautiful and productive, but also severely and increasingly affected by human impacts–I am often shocked by how little we know about our nearshore habitats like seagrass, kelp forests, and rocky reefs. We regularly explore the intertidal, walking up to the water’s edge, and sometimes wading in to get a closer look. But then we often stop and forget about what is happening just a bit deeper.
Currently, I use seagrass as a model system to understand how human impacts affect nearshore coastal habitats, particularly in the context of multiple stressors. I use a variety of techniques ranging from global-scale datasets examined using meta-analysis to local-scale experiments done in the field.