I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Ocean Ecology Lab at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) working to support the upcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission. My research includes processing and evaluating existing satellite and field data with the goal of developing and improving satellite methods for derivation of metrics related to phytoplankton community composition and particle size distributions.

I received my PhD from the Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences (MEES) program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, located at Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, MD. My dissertation research used a combination of in situ, satellite, and drone remote sensing to study terrestrial and aquatic coastal habitats.