https://oceanexpert.org/expert/32565

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8172-7855
ResearcherID : GWN-1019-2022

PhD

Research

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Climatology, Meteorology
Fisheries, Aquaculture
Molecular Biology
Physical Oceanography
Policy, Law, Economics, Management

Throughout my career, I have endeavored to understand the health of Southern Ocean populations as a means of determining anthropogenic impacts: from exploitation to climate change. During my pre-doctoral career, I innovated synergistic approaches to improve the informativeness of genetics and genomics tools by combining these proxies of relatedness with proxies of provenance, such as trace element analysis, to understand life history and ultimately population dynamics. During my post-doctoral career, I expanded my toolbox from population genomics and otolith chemistry, to climate genomics, combining genomic adaptation and species distribution modeling to understand and project current and future climate change impacts on marine populations. 

Three key elements have driven my career thus far: 1) scientific excellence; 2) capacity building and outreach; and 3) policy engagement. Throughout my career, which has taken me from the US to the UK, Italy, Germany, and France, I have led international efforts to conduct and coordinate policy-relevant research, as well as communicate such efforts to non-specialist audiences. In an effort to translate my work from science to policy in the Southern Ocean, I have had extensive engagements with the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and other conservation and management bodies, such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

South Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean

English

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