My focus has primarily been highly migratory marine fishes, but other taxa find their way to my desk too. I emphasize lowering the barrier of entry to learn new tools/methods by way of easy-to-digest tutorials and developing user-friendly tools within my discipline.
I’m an marine fish ecologist masquerading as a bioinformatician/geneticist. I studied a coastal shark species for my Masters degree and all the tuna species for my PhD.
Over the years I developed an affinity for the technical and analytical parts of research, along with a [some would argue] pedantic attention to detail in presentation aesthetics. As a result, I design 99% of all of my graphics, templates, gifs from scratch.
I also adhere to modern approaches to research reproducibility, so I lean heavily on integrating GitHub, Jupyter Notebooks, conda environments, and Snakemake workflows for complete transparency.
Besides work, I enjoy playing guitar, cooking, hiking, swimming, rock climbing, scuba diving, actually relaxing, coding in Julia, carpentry, and the occasional metroidvania or RPG video game.
Here are a few technologies I've work with:I worked as a Technical Developer for STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) courses. The courses included:
I was a PhD student under the advisement of Dr. Eric Saillant at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, MS. My committee included Dr. Leila Hamdan, Dr. Kenneth Jones, Dr. Frank Hernandez, and the legendary James “Jim” Franks.
I was a Masters student under the advisement of Dr. David Portnoy at Texas A&M Univeristy - Corpus Christi. My committee included Drs. Derek Hogan and Jose Guardiola. I was also mentored under the watchful eye of Dr. Stuart Willis. [link]
Advisor: Eric Saillant
Advisor: David Portnoy
Project: Population structure and demography of the Blacknose shark in the Atlantic Ocean
Advisor: Kimberly Schulz
Project: Trophic differences in planktonic assemblages between a pristine and invaded lake in the Adirondacks
