About Me

From fishing for stripers and catfish in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, camping and hiking with friends and family in the CA Northern Coast Ranges, to watching my Grandma and Dad grow just about everything in their Bay Area gardens, I developed a deep appreciation and curiosity for the natural world early on. I've studied everything from tropical fish behavior, intertidal snail diversity and distribution, high-mountain stream insect behavior and susceptibility to predation in the CO Rockies, water quality conditions and fish surveys throughout the California Delta, to fish health and their intestinal microbiota and macroparasite communities. The unifying theme of my research is trying to understand how aquatic organisms, populations, and communities respond to anthropogenic stress in their ever-changing physical environment. My doctoral research goal is to study how anadromous fish respond and cope with stressors from a physiological standpoint to help us better understand and prioritize how to manage and mitigate impacts to fish and their resources.