I serve as Assistant Director (Academic Advising) and Senior Research Associate at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, Maine and on the Cornell campus in Ithaca. My responsibilities include SML curriculum, coordinating SML's academic offerings with courses offered on campus, serving as an SML representative to the BCC (Biology Curriculum Committee), teaching in BioSM 1610 and BioSM 1780, and coordinating the biological research internship program. I am also Co-Director of the Isles of Shoals Archaeology Project and help teach the public annual archaeology field school offered through SML: Island Archaeology and Shoals History Week.

My research interests include 1) sustainability of industrial-scale removal of low-trophic level marine resources (particularly brown seaweeds) in New England, 2) expansion and impacts of invasive marine species in the Gulf of Maine, 3) evolutionary ecology of Littorina species, and 4) historical ecology of the Gulf of Maine. In 2010-11 I was a TogetherGreen Audubon/Toyota Conservation Leadership Fellow. I am co-director of a Maine non-profit whose mission is protection of critical intertidal habitat formed by brown seaweeds: the Rockweed Coalition.