Broadly, I am a marine evolutionary ecophysiologist and study the mechanisms and drivers of stress tolerance in reef-building corals. I am currently an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. I did my undergraduate at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, MS and Ph.D. at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, a postdoc at the Hopkins Marine Station, and a second postdoc at NOAA Fisheries, Santa Cruz. My work employs a combination of field transplantation, controlled acclimation experiments, and advanced genomic techniques to uncover the relative roles of adaptation and acclimatization in determining coral tolerance limits and sensitivity to climate change impacts.