My research interests include reef fishes, mesophotic coral ecosystems, evolution, community ecology, and genetics. I am one of the main users of the ToBo eDNA lab facility which I played a primary role in starting during my second year here. This lab is where I spend much of my time as a graduate research assistant processing samples collected on National Geographic Society Pristine Seas expeditions. I also do bioinformatic analyses for Pristine Seas and ToBo lab metabarcoding projects and contribute analyses to population genetics projects that the ToBo Lab works on. I am an active AAUS scientific diver, as well as an after-hours shuttle boat operator at HIMB.
Originally from Prince Edward Island (the smallest province in Canada), I studied for my BSc with majors in Biology and Kinesiology at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). After this, I worked in a few research related positions in Bermuda, Cambodia, and for the Canadian federal government before beginning the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME). I spent most of my time in this pan-European program studying genetics and the evolution of marine animals in Montpellier (France), Kiel (Germany), and Groningen (the Netherlands).
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