Growing up in Redondo Beach, CA, I was always at the beach, swimming, rowing, and paddling outrigger canoes. I graduated from UC Santa Barbara in June 2024 with a B.S. in Aquatic Biology and a minor in Earth Sciences, with a focus on climate change science. During college, I became an AAUS scientific diver to assist in kelp forest ecology surveys in the Santa Barbara Channel and then coral restoration in Moorea. I'm super excited to continue scientific diving and fieldwork with the TERC team!