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Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting

5/29/2022

 
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Week before last, I had the opportunity to travel to Grand Rapids, MI for my first ever Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting. It was a fantastic week spent catching up with friends and collaborators, both old and new. I also co-hosted a 2-day long session focused on ecological modeling and its applications ("Ecological models as tools for integrating aquatic sciences"). I really appreciated all the efforts the venue and organizers made to accommodate both in-person and virtual participants - here's hoping the hybrid format, and its increased accessibility, is here to stay. I'm already looking forward to the upcoming aquatic sciences meetings next summer!

Adventures in Reno

2/20/2022

 
It's hard to believe a year has already passed here at UNR! Here are a few photos from my local exploring with the Blaszczak lab, friends, and family.

New Publication in Oikos

11/10/2021

 
Check out our new paper in Oikos! We examined changes in giant kelp tissue nutritional content over the past 19 years using an existing Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research site dataset. Our results suggest that the nutritional content of giant kelp has declined, and that this decline is correlated with increasing seawater temperatures. A  big thank you to my fantastic co-authors, Kyle, Jenny, and Bob! Click on the buttons below to see and hear news coverage about this work:
NSF LTER Network
Hakai Magazine
KCBX (San Luis Obispo)
The Current (UCSB)
Santa Barbara Independent
The Bottom Line (UCSB)
NSF Research News
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Fall REtreat At Flathead Lake

10/25/2021

 
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In late October, I had the opportunity to visit the Flathead Lake Biological Station in northwest Montana and meet my colleagues on the Modelscape project from the Universities of Montana and Wyoming for the first time. Each day was filled with great discussions and planning for future collaborations, followed by  a gorgeous walk in the surrounding autumn scenery. It was a wonderful first meeting of my postdoc position, and I am already looking forward to next year's retreat! For more information about the consortium, our activities, and the researchers associated, please check out the public webpage here.

New Publication in E&C

4/11/2021

 
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Check out our new paper in Estuaries & Coasts! Our study examined inputs of terrestrial organic material to nearshore marine sediment following a series of winter storms. Using lignin phenols as biomarkers, we were able to detect changes in the source material and the level of degradation of the material over time. Thank you to co-authors Matthieu, Marc, John and Mark!

Tidy Tuesdays

12/22/2020

 
Over the past few months, I've organized a series of 20+ coding workshops and hacky hours focused on learning data tidying, analysis, and visualization skills in R/RStudio. The group has covered the basics of using R and RMarkdown, cleaning up data using the tidyverse, creating beautiful visualizations using ggplot and sf, collaborating with others using Git and GitHub, and lots more. If you're interested in following along, all session recordings, scripts, and datasets can be found at our repository on GitHub. Also, I'd like to extend a huge thank you to our many guest lecturers as well as a special thank you to the authors of the palmerpenguins package - Allison Horst, Alison Hill, and Kristen Gorman - which makes several appearances throughout the series.

Ca Society for Freshwater Science - R Workshop

10/28/2020

 
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In mid-October, I co-taught an R workshop for novice to intermediate R/RStudio users at the joint California Society for Freshwater Science and California Bioassessment Workgroup virtual conference. Over the course of the two-day workshop, 40 attendees learned skills in data wrangling, tidying, and visualization, and we were assisted by a fantastic team of helpers who coordinated debugging assistance and fielded questions in real time as my co-instructor, Ryan Peek, and I live-coded the lessons. All of the material, including session recordings, can be found on our website - https://ucd-cws.github.io/CABW2020_R_training/ . I would also like to extend a special thank you to Allison Horst, who allowed us to use her fantastic monsteR illustrations throughout.

~*Graduation 2020*~

8/3/2020

 
In May, I successfully defended my dissertation (setup below) to a virtual audience of family, friends, faculty, and former students (and a live audience of two cats and one husband). I am so grateful to everyone for all of their support and encouragement, and special thanks to John Melack who first provided me with this opportunity and has consistently been my advocate and my mentor.
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Throughout my degree, I had the support of a tremendous group of friends and family in Santa Barbara and all over the country. I found an incredible community at UCSB, and I am so grateful for all of the friendships and adventures I couldn’t have even begun to envision five years ago. Thank you everyone!
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OSM 2020

3/27/2020

 
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I recently co-hosted a session titled "Marine Sediments: Fluxes, Fauna, and Forecasting" alongside Tina Treude (UCLA) at this year's Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, CA. I also participated in the Ocean Data Labs workshop and presented my ongoing work examining permeable sediments surrounding giant kelp forests as a source of nutrients to the overlying water column. This was my first ever OSM, and I am already looking forward to OSM 2022 in Honolulu! (If anyone is interested in hosting a similar sediment-themed session at the next meeting, please feel free to get in touch!)

CERF 2019

11/11/2019

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I just arrived home from a fantastic week in Mobile at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation's Biennial Conference. I presented my work involving the deposition of debris on nearby Goleta Beach and tracing this terrestrial material in nearshore marine sediment using lignin phenols as a biomarker. As a first-time attendee, I also participated in their mentorship and networking programs, where I had the chance to meet lots of friendly fellow coastal biogeochemists :) Needless to say, I will definitely be back for CERF 2021 in Richmond, VA - thanks for welcoming me with open arms CERF!
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    I am a  Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biology at Duke University.

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