I am a PhD Student at Florida International University (FIU) working with Dr. Jennifer Rehage and Dr. Rolando Santos in the Coastal Fish Ecology and Fisheries Research Lab 🐟 🌴 ☀️ 🐠
I am an ecosystem ecologist (or at least that's what they tell me) interested in the cycling of nutrients and flow of energy through the lens of animals. Specifically, my research aims to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms which drive patterns in consumer nutrient dynamics, food webs, and animal movement to provide a more holistic understanding of ecosystem function.
I am also interested in data science. Though I have no formal training in the subject, I enjoy - at least most of the time - developing reproducible workflows, creating aesthetically-pleasing data visualizations, and striving to maintain FAIR data.
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Though I do not have a personal website at the moment, feel free to check out the website I am developing (in progress) for our synthesis team looking at the consumer nutrient dynamics of marine ecosystems under the wake of global change.