introduction
Welcome! I am a
marine scientist and currently a Ph.D. student with Dr.
Christopher
Gobler in the Gobler Lab.
Broadly, I am interested in
addressing the
question:
What factors cause the initiation, proliferation, and decline of harmful algal blooms?
More specifically, how does the availability of inorganic and organic nutrients affect the physiology of harmful phytoplankton, and hence determine their metabolism, growth, and location? I am approaching this question with both laboratory cultures and field work. For my Ph.D., I am studying organic nutrient metabolism in Aureococcus anophagefferens (brown tide causing) in Long Island waterways.
