Design Storm Underestimate Flood Hazard and Risk Derived from Stochastic Storm Transposition Flood hazard and risk data are essential to flood management and resilience efforts, including development plans, construction requirements, and insurance mandates. However, many current datasets rely on design … Read more
Coral Reef Structure, Community Composition Shifts, and the Complexities of Coral Reef Management across three regions in the Greater Caribbean and Florida Coral reef ecosystems, crucial for food provision, hurricane protection, and socio-economic stability, are threatened by coral diseases, hurricane … Read more
Characterizing the Role of Compound Processes on Tropical Cyclone Floods Flooding generated by tropical cyclones (TCs) can cause significant losses, infrastructure damage, and disruption over large areas. Assessing the full extent of TC flooding is challenging because it results from … Read more
Bacterial Metabolism Mediates Biogeochemical Cycling in the Open and Coastal Ocean Microbes play a critical role in marine ecosystems, driving organic matter alterations and regulating global biogeochemical cycles. I seek to gain insight into organic matter composition, lability, and fate … Read more
Investigating the gene expression of mixotrophic phytoplankton under iron-limited upwelling conditions Mixotrophic phytoplankton may have significant impacts on ocean food web dynamics, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem stability. As global warming is expected to decrease iron bioavailability to phytoplankton, mixotrophs may … Read more
Quantifying Precipitation-Induced Uncertainty in Flood Hazard Assessment for a Coastal Urban Area Flooding is the costliest disaster in the United States, and its impacts are projected to grow under climate and land use change. To prepare for and mitigate these … Read more
Metagenomics Workflow to Assess the Genetic Diversity of the Vibrio-Squid Symbiosis Host-colonization sites containing low-diversity microbial populations present a unique problem when applying metagenomics approaches. For example, how does one extract information such as the number of unique genotypes and … Read more
Drivers of marine phytoplankton diversity and connectivity in the Galápagos Archipelago spanning an ENSO cycle The Galápagos Islands lie on the intersection of multiple converging ocean currents, bringing unique environmental conditions to the archipelago which supports relatively high biodiversity and … Read more
Cell density as a potential regulator of Type VI Secretion System in Vibrio fischeri When bacteria colonize a system, they must compete for space and nutrients. During the competition process, some bacteria can build a contact-dependent molecular weapon that injects … Read more
Aundre Jackson: Identifying factors that affect the abundance of oysters pathogens in seawater Vibrio spp (Vibrio species), including the oyster pathogen V. corallilyticus, are a persistent concern for oyster hatcheries in Netarts Bay, Oregon, which is vulnerable to changing … Read more
Developing a Bioinformatic Workflow to Analyze Metagenomes of the Vibrio-Squid Symbiosis Host-colonization sites containing low-diversity microbial populations present a unique problem when applying metagenomic approaches. For example, how does one extract information such as the number of unique genotypes and relative … Read more
