Lagoa da Conceição, Brazil.
Hello!
I am a limnologist with a deep passion for water and tiny organisms; the ones that are invisible to the naked eye. As a researcher, I am interested in understanding how global change issues (e.g., eutrophication, land use change, pollution, urbanization, and climate change) impact the biodiversity and functioning of aquatic ecosystems using observational, experimental, and modeling approaches in habitats that range from streams and ponds to large lakes and river systems.
I am an assistant research scientist in the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. My research directly addresses how earth-observing satellite data can better inform critical links between the biogeochemical and optical properties of inland waters. This NASA-funded project will help target chlorophyll hotspots to track cyanoHABs across the state of Missouri in the US.
Main research areas & Interests
Limnology
Water Quality
Plankton ecology
Community ecology
Ecosystem ecology
Reservoir ecology
Eutrophication
Land-use change
Pollution
Urbanization
Climate change
Wildfire impacts
Limnological fieldwork
Experimental ecology
Water chemistry analysis
High-frequency data collection
Quantitative analysis
Ecological modeling
Data harmonization
Data visualization
Programming languages
Version control (Git/GitHub)
Remote sensing
Google Earth Engine
Technical expertise
Skills & Passions
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