​I am interested in the history of mass coral bleaching events and the rates at which corals acclimatize and adapt to rising ocean temperatures. My current research uses skeletal cores from long-lived massive corals to build a timeline of bleaching events over recent decades and centuries. Additionally, I am conducting reef-scale measurements of temperature, currents, and waves to evaluate the role of local heat budgets in driving coral bleaching events. 

Climate Change Marine ecology Coral Bleaching Acclimatization Physical Oceanography