I am a PhD student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. My research focuses on coastal physical oceanography on timescales from days to decades. Coastal regions are home to some of the most productive ecosystems in the world and the health of these ecosystems is tightly linked to their physical environment. I investigate how and why water properties like temperature, salinity, and nutrients vary in space and time as a result of oceanic and atmospheric forcing, with my questions motivated by how these physical changes impact coastal ocean ecosystems.
To answer my research questions, I build software tools to analyze and visualize in-situ, remote sensed, and model datasets from a variety of sources. I strongly believe that good code makes great science , so I'm particularly passionate about contributing to an ecosystem of open-source software and open-source science in the oceanographic community and beyond.