National Academies’ Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems (UGOS) Project

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on this project. My focus is on using glider based current data to validate regional models in the Gulf and the Yucatan. We have a unique opportunity to track velocities along large eddies, aiding in future hurricane predictions.

Task Force Oceans: Predictions of AcousticS with Smart Experimental Networks of GlidERS (PASSENGERS) Project

PASSENGERS was a collaboration between the Naval Research Labs and university researchers. We deployed and piloted autonomous underwater vehicles around the Atlantis II seamounts in the North Atlantic, using a sound source to test propagation and signal detectability in this big, beautiful, deep environment.

NSF Smart & Autonomous Systems

A project developing an AI-path planning experiment: with little-to-no human intervention, use a fleet of robots to search an underwater environment for acoustically tagged fish. While the other engineers focused on machine learning decision making, I built the tidally-controlled environment and set effective detection ranges using glider data.

NSF Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project: Palmer Station, Antarctica

I was deployed twice to Palmer Station, Antarctica, the smallest US Antarctic research base. We sampled, irradiated, incubated, and filtered water from penguin foraging sites to test primary productivity. LTER projects are effective ways at understanding how important environments change. I was first an undergraduate researcher, then as field team lead a few years later. Total of 9 months spent on ice.