I am a coastal physical oceanographer who studies how circulation, mixing, exchange, and fronts organize coastal waters and control the transport and fate of water and tracers. My research focuses on the physical mechanisms that determine where and when fronts, transport pathways, mixing, and accumulation emerge, and why they become dynamically important.

I investigate these questions across estuaries, estuary–shelf systems, and coastal oceans using observations, realistic numerical models, and Lagrangian approaches. I use these tools to identify mechanisms, test physical hypotheses, and understand where materials go, how long they remain, and why particular pathways and hotspots emerge. By tracing these dynamics through their consequences for hypoxia, harmful algal blooms, biogeochemical cycling, and ecosystem connectivity, my research connects fundamental coastal physics to biological and environmental processes.

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