Employment
Aug. 2025–present
Independent Researcher, Oceanography
Aug. 2025–present
Industry Consultant, Submarine Cable Desktop Studies
May 2024–Aug. 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dec. 2014–Aug. 2017
Research Technician
Dec. 2013–Dec. 2014
MetOcean Scientist
Jul. 2012–Jun. 2013
Assistant Coastal Surveyor
Various
Physical Oceanography Consultant
Education
2017–2024
PhD, Oceanography
Supervisor: Dr. Rich Pawlowicz. Transferred from the MSc program in September 2019.
2010–2013
BSc, Oceanography
Supervisor: Dr. Eleanor Frajka-Williams.
Teaching
Sessional Lecturer
2022
Methods in Oceanography (EOSC 473/573)
Teaching Assistant
2019
Modern Observational Oceanography
2018
The Fluid Earth: Atmosphere and Ocean (EOSC 112)
2017–2020
Computer Methods in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOSC 211)
Student Supervision
2022
Elli Cunningham
Testing, development, and deployment of
Swish floats.
2019
Iris Gao
Applied an empirical CDOM–salinity relationship to observations from
wastewater outfalls around Vancouver to investigate near-field wastewater dispersal.
2018
Forbes Choy
Investigated near-field wastewater dispersal at First Narrows, Vancouver,
using an empirical CDOM–salinity relationship as a wastewater tracer.
Fieldwork
Research cruises.
39 BATS/Hydrostation S cruises aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer,
including 11 as chief scientist; one BATS cruise aboard the
R/V Endeavor; one Salish Sea cruise aboard the
CCGS Vector; and one Gulf of St. Lawrence TReX deep cruise
aboard the R/V Coriolis II.
Coastal fieldwork.
Extensive experience leading and participating in coastal fieldwork from
small- and medium-sized vessels and hovercraft in shelf, estuarine, reef,
and fjord environments.
Selected Awards
International
Selected to present doctoral research at the 13th Physical Oceanography
Dissertation Symposium, Lihue, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i.
National
Awarded for the doctoral thesis
Measuring Subsurface Circulation in Deep Stratified Marginal Seas.
Graduate research funding supporting doctoral work associated with the TReX project.
Institutional — UBC
George L. Pickard Scholarship in Oceanography
Award recognizing originality and promise in multidisciplinary oceanography.
W. H. Mathews Scholarship
Captain Thomas S. Byrne Scholarship
Awarded for publication of an
outstanding scientific paper in oceanography
.
Selected Workshops
2023
Fire Across the Land: Truth and Reconciliation Workshop
2019
International Summer School on Radio Oceanography
Week-long course on the use of high-frequency radar in oceanography.
2015
Sea-Bird Electronics CTD Bootcamp
Week-long technical course covering CTD and sensor operation,
data processing, maintenance, and repair.
Selected Presentations
Swish floats — an inexpensive neutrally buoyant float to monitor dispersion in coastal seas
Initial tracer dispersion measurements in the TReX deep tracer release experiment
Using seasonality to trace water masses in a coastal ocean
Meridional Heat and Salinity Budgets of the Sargasso Sea Inferred from Two Decades of Ocean Time-series and Transect Observations
Investigating the Interannual and Mesoscale Erosion of North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water Within the Sargasso Sea
Physical and Biogeochemical Factors Affecting Deep Oxygen Minimum Zone Variability at BATS