I am a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow 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 and in operating analytical instrumentation including cavity ring-down spectroscopy, 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.

I am open to collaborating on the sampling, analysis, and characterization of environmental microplastics; microplastics method development; modelling the flows of plastic and plastic emissions through society and the environment; and plastics and climate policy.