Students

Caitlin is interested in coastal physical oceanography and the processes that govern transport, retention, and exchange in nearshore environments. Her research focuses on how currents interact with coastal geometry, stratification, and forcing from winds and tides to shape circulation along rocky coastlines. She combines field observations, data analysis, and numerical modeling to better understand coastal dynamics and their ecological consequences.

Lucas' research lies in the intersection between physical oceanography and ecology. His main interest is understanding how the interaction between physical processes and living organisms shape ecological dynamics at higher organizational levels (populations to ecosystems). His current project, in collaboration with the Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary, focuses on exposure to hypoxic events and their potential consequences on temperate mesophotic ecosystems in upwelling regions.