About Me

I am a 3rd year Physical Oceanography PhD student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program advised by Magdalena Andres and Glen Gawarkiewicz. I passed my PhD qualifying exams in June 2023. After my exams, I finished up a project on Gulf Stream rings that I will present at OSM 2024. I also recently submitted the manuscript, “Is the Regime Shift in Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings Detected by Satellite Altimetry? An Inter-comparison of Eddy Identification and Tracking Products,” to JGR Oceans. After OSM 2024, I plan to present my thesis proposal in March 2024 to my thesis committee.

Some of my past research projects include: understanding drivers of marine heatwaves in the North Atlantic, analyzing variability of Gulf Stream rings using sea surface height products, and modeling the relationship of the Shelf Break Jet to sea level variabililty on the U.S. NE coast. I am particularly interested in climate variability, mesoscale to large-scale ocean dynamics, sea level change, and extreme events.

In my free time, I enjoy biking around Cape Cod and Boston, walking in nature, swimming, listening to podcasts, and reading. During the summer I do pottery and in the winter I (attempt to work on my) knit(ting projects).