I am a Biological Oceanographer interested in zooplankton ecology and life history evolution. I studied with Dr. Ted Durbin at the University of Rhode Island, where as a student, I worked on the USGLOBEC project in the late 1990’s. My dissertation research however, concerned the quantitative genetics of diapause or dormancy in the calanoid copepod Acartia hudsonica. It was that work that brought me to UCONN in 2002. As a post-doc in the lab of Dr, Hans G. Dam, I applied some techniques of evolutionary ecology to the study of copepods and toxic algae. I am currently Assistant Professor in Residence in the Dept. of Marine Sciences, working with Dr. Dam on several projects related to the evolution of toxin resistance in copepods. I have additional interests in how planktonic organisms cope with life in a dynamic fluid environment, in zooplankton nutrition and population biology.