My current project here at UCSB involves investigating the impact of multiple simultaneous stressors like temperature, pH/pCO2, light, nutrients, etc. on phytoplankton growth and physiology in controlled lab conditions. I am an aquatic microbial ecologist, with broad interests in the assessment of anthropogenic forcing on aquatic microorganisms (phytoplankton, bacteria and protists) on a global scale. My previous work includes: assessment of metabolic changes in heterotrophic protists in response to feeding stress (URI, 2016-17); the impact of oil on marine phytoplankton, bacteria, and protists in the Gulf of Mexico (Columbia University and Georgia Tech, 2012-16); and investigating ice-associated phytoplankton and microbial communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes (Bowling Green State University, 2007-12).