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I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Rhode Island in the Puritz Lab of Marine Evolutionary Ecology. Broadly, I am interested in assessing evolutionary responses of benthic marine organisms to multiple anthropogenic stressors. I am using seascape genomics techniques to understand how stressors, like sewage effluent, can act as barriers to gene flow across marine populations. Additionally, I am conducting exposure experiments to investigate physiological responses of larval oysters to multiple stressors and using genomic techniques to determine the underlying mechanisms of those responses. As I believe that reproducibility is an important part of science, all protocols and code used in current and future projects can be accessed through my website or GitHub account.
Biological and Environmental Sciences Department, Evolutionary and Marine Biology Specialization
September 2018Marine Science Program, Marine Science Major with Emphasis in Biological Oceanography; Spanish Minor
August 2014 - May 2018