Research
My research focuses on improving our understanding of how key features of global change (e.g., ocean warming, eutrophication, etc.) will impact marine resources and coastal communities in the future, and assessing ways to mitigate those impacts through the development of novel ecosystem based management and restoration practices.
Ecosystems I work in...
My current projects work primarily in seagrass, salt marsh, and mangrove ecosystems. Although, I have experience working in a variety of other systems (e.g., coral reefs, open ocean, etc.)


Places I work...
The majority of my active projects take place in coastal North Carolina and Bocas del Toro, Panama. I am also involved with collaborative projects based in Georgia and California. My previous research has taken place is a number of temperate (e.g., North Carolina and Maryland) and tropical (e.g., Florida, Panama, Cuba, and Costa Rica) environments.