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I have always been passionate about aquatic sciences and the stress they face. I have previously worked as a laboratory manager with the Voss Laboratory at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute where I worked on: mutli-factorial experiments on coral disease, oil exposure, dispersant use, and hypoxia ; the impact of freshwater discharge on the corals of St. Lucie Reef, FL; and habitat classification of the Flower Garden Banks.
I completed my M.Sc. in Environmental Science at University College Dublin, Ireland, where I worked in the Reynaud Laboratory (R Lab) on the use of automated classification to identify plankton samples from the Tara Oceans global circumnavigation of the globe cruise. I began my career at the University of Notre Dame where I worked with the Tank Laboratory on the ways in which agricultural ditch shape impacts nitrogen retention in rivers and nitrogen removal to the atmosphere. |