Experience
Current Research
I have spent the past two years (2023-2025) as an undergraduate researcher in the Iglesias-Rodriguez lab at UC Santa Barbara under Dr. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez, studying Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and its potential effect on marine organisms. Currently, I am finishing up a project assessing the growth and calcification of Emiliania huxleyi under a brucite-inspired alkalinity addition See Senior Thesis page.
Looking ahead to the future, I will be joining the Sclero Lab at Tulane University to begin my PhD under Dr. Thomas DeCarlo in Fall 2025 where I will continue researching marine calcifiers and climate change, but shifting my focus slightly to study coral reefs and marine heatwaves.
Past Research
Previously, I have served as an undergraduate researcher under Dr. Adam Lambert assisting in the restoration of a riparian ecosystem along the a section of the Sespe River in Fillmore, CA. Additionally, I completed a week-long mini project assessing the affect of a storm on the physical and chemical characteristics of high elevation and low elevation streams during a research trip with FUERTE.