Who I Am

I am a fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Abernathy Fish Technology Center. I provide quantitative and experimental support to aquatic conservation research projects in the Pacific Northwest. Work also includes the development of climate change vulnerability assessments for Northwest National Fish Hatcheries under future climate scenarios to provide managers decision making tools for continued aquatic conservation efforts. 

In 2022 I earned a PhD in Coastal Sciences from the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory with the University of Southern Mississippi where I studied the population dynamics of the longest-living bivalve on Earth, the ocean quahog (Arctica islandica). This dissertation followed previous work with green sturgeon at the University of California Santa Cruz and the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, inland fisheries with the US Forest Service, and natural resource management, in addition to an earned BS from Western Washington University and a joint MS from James Madison University and the University of Malta.