I grew up in idyllic Walla Walla, Washington in the cradle of the Blue Mountains. I received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Environmental Science from the Colorado College in 1999. I returned to Washington afterwards and worked at NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, aiding their native salmon recovery efforts. I began a joint doctoral program in Marine Ecology between UC Davis and San Diego State in the fall of 2003 and advanced to candidacy in early 2006. Currently I live in San Diego, CA with my lovely wife Emily and her endearing yet bitey Rottwieler “Sampson”. My dissertation research attempts to track planktonic marine larvae using chemical fingerprinting. I split time between the Morgan Lab at UC Davis and the Hentschel Lab at SDSU. While in Bodega Bay, I use the porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes as a model organism for larval dispersal, whereas at the Coastal Waters Laboratory in San Diego I study the Olympia oyster, Ostrea conchaphila. In my free time I enjoy making artificial reefs, singing at local clubs and bonfires, and planning extravaganzas. I am scheduled to retire from the Morgan Lab in the Summer of 2008.
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