Publications

Research Interests

I am interested in how organisms (with a  particular interests in mollusks) are adapted to life in the rocky intertidal, a habitat shaped by abiotic and biotic stressors. I am interested in taking an eco-materials approach to this question thinking about what features of their body structures and properties of the materials they are composed of makes them so well adapted.  Specifically I am studying how climate change, both ocean warming and acidification, affect these adaptations and consequentially, species interactions to better understand what climate change will mean for the intertidal.  I am approaching this by examining how changes in ocean temperature and acidity will affect the integrity of the materials of organisms that make them suited to this harsh environment.