CV

Education

• PhD Earth System Science, Stanford University, 2025
  Dissertation: “Primary producers in the changing polar oceans”
• BA Biology with honors, summa cum laude, Scripps College, 2018
  Dance minor
  Thesis: “Assessing loss rates of a developing red tide at the population level”

Research Experience

• Stanford University, 2019-2025
  Graduate Student Researcher
  Polar biological oceanography
  PI: Dr. Kevin Arrigo

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2018-2019
  Research Assistant I
  Harmful algal bloom ecology
  PI: Dr. Michael Brosnahan

• The Claremont Colleges, 2015-2018
  Undergraduate Research Assistant
  Intertidal marine ecology
  PI: Dr. Sarah Gilman

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Summer 2017
  Summer Student Fellow
  Harmful algal bloom ecology
  PIs: Dr. Donald Anderson and Dr. Michael Brosnahan

• University of Tasmania, Spring 2017
  Undergraduate Research Assistant
  Sea ice biogeochemistry
  PIs: Dr. Delphine Lannuzel and Dr. Sebastien Moreau

Grants and Fellowships

• ARCS Foundation Scholar Award
• Stanford Graduate Fellowship
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• NSF Research Grant for Doctoral Dissertation Research: “Dissolved organic nitrogen uptake by harmful algal blooms in the Chukchi Sea”
• Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Graduate Research Grant: “Dissolved organic nitrogen uptake by harmful algal blooms in the Chukchi Sea”
• James E. Scripps Scholarship
• WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (REU)
• The Claremont College Bechtel Summer Research Fellowship

Service (see also Outreach & Mentoring)

• Mentor for 4 high school students and 2 undergraduate students
• Co-Director of Scholarships, Future Advancers of Science and Technology, 2023-current
  • Development Officer, 2022-2023
  • Financial Officer, 2020-2022
• Scientist participant (by invitation), National Geographic Society Convening: “Systems Change in the Arctic Ocean Ecosystem”, 2022