I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Memorial University of Newfoundland investigating the transport and fate of microplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean. I obtained my Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto where I investigated the sources of plastic pollution into the environment, and the fate of plastic pollution in the global ocean. I am interested in the interconnections between plastics, carbon, and climate, and informing policy through my research. 

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I am a modeler and environmental analytical scientist. I have extensive training in environmental sampling methods including sampling water and sediment for microplastics, sampling air for volatile organic compounds, and sampling benthic macroinvertebrate communities to assess ecosystem health. I also have extensive training in operating analytical instrumentation including cavity ring-down spectroscopy for greenhouse gas quantification, ion chromatography, Raman and FTIR spectroscopy, and GC/MS and LC/MS. I am proficient in using R, Python, MATLAB, and GIS software for data analysis, spatial analysis, and predictive modelling.