I am a PhD candidate in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. My interests are mostly about how marine animals move through and inhabit their environment--which is often unpredictable, patchy, and turbulent. To get at these questions, I use a mixture of remote sensing (mostly radar and sonar), modeling, and ecological theory.
Like the oceanographer Henry Stommel (Science, 1963), I "look forward to a time when theory and observation will at last advance together in a more intimately related way."
Click on the links below to learn more about my big-picture, interests, or visit the Publications page for my papers.
Pattern, Scale, and Complexity

How do small-scale processes and behaviors generate large-scale patterns and dynamics?
Animal Movement
