Historical Marine Ecology

I am an historical marine ecologist and love all wild waters. My research explores the past relationships we humans have with our surrounding aquatic environments, fish, and climate in order to enrich and ground our understanding of current conditions and to provide deeper knowledge to make plans for the future.

As a freelance ecologist I have worked as an independent researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Seascape Program, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Trout Unlimited. I have primarily focused on the interactions between human development and the changing populations of diadromous fishes along the US Atlantic coast, the history of dams as waterway obstructions, and access to historical spawning grounds. I continue to contribute to an academic team studying the greater ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine and am the research assistant and fact checker for the best selling author Paul Greenberg (Four Fish, American Catch, The Omega Principle).

Climate Change Communications

I am a member of the American Fisheries Society and am one of the Steering Committee directors of the Climate Ambassadors and Climate Fellows Programs. Check out our Climate Change and Fisheries website and meet our past and present Ambassadors.

Research

My research has been published in Landscape Ecology, BioScience, and Science Advances, among others. Recently I have been pursuing an ongoing investigation into the history of fish and fisheries in New York City and localized coastal impacts of climate change. I am increasingly invested in combining my artist and scientist halves in public processes to make data-rich science more understandable, embodied, and memorable for the general public.