Research/Career Interests:
I am an NSF Graduate Research Fellow studying how local and global stressors alter the coral host and its associated microbial community. As part of project CHOMPIN, I conducted a month-long tank experiment at the Gump Research Station on Moorea, French Polynesia in September 2017. With my dissertation work, I will investigate how stressors such as fish predation, thermal stress, and nutrient enrichment act synergistically, additively, or antagonistically to destabilize the coral microbiome over time.