I am a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, in the lab of Dr. Roy Caldwell. In collaboration with Dr. Bruce Robison and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Midwater Ecology lab, my dissertation research focuses on the defensive behaviors of deep-sea squid. This research is funded in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and through the support of the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to MBARI.

Recently published

Behaving in the dark: locomotor, chromatic, postural and bioluimescent behaviors of the deep-sea squid Octopoteuthis deletron Young 1972.

Recent and Upcoming Talks

February 12

Deep Sea Squid: What Are They Inking?

Hartnell College Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Colloquium

February 6, 13, 20, 27

Natural History and Human Interactions of Monterey Bay

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Short Course

January 24

How to Surivive as a Squid in the Deep Sea

NOAA Ocean Explorer Teacher Enrichment Workshop

See the presentation as a movie here

January 31

Hunting and Hiding with the Lights Out: Predator Prey Interactions in the Deep Sea

Pacific Grove Natural History Museum

See the presentation as a movie here