2007   Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara ~ Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
1998   B.S. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ~ Environmental Science

2022- Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2021-2022 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2016-2021   Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2011    Researcher, Ocean Health Index project, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

2008-2015   Research and Program Director, The Sustainable Fisheries Group, Marine Science Institute / Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

2007-2008  Project Manager, California Current Ecosystem-Based Management initiative, Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) and University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

2006    Researcher, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1998-2000  Research Technician, Hay Lab, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.