Research Area

I am broadly interested in how anthropogenic activities influence marine systems and, in particular, phytoplankton communities. As a PhD student in the Iglesias-Rodriguez lab, my work includes projects investigating the impacts of oil exposure on phytoplankton physiology, how ash deposition in the marine environment alters phytoplankton physiology and community composition, and exploring coccolithophore blooms in the Eastern Bering Sea. I use a diversity of tools such as flow cytometry, microscopy, and omics to gain a better understanding of phytoplankton in both the field and laboratory experiments.