"My research interests focus on microplastic pollution and its interactions with microbes. These interactions are important because they may determine the ultimate fate of the plastics that have entered the marine environment."
My current research focuses on monitoring biodiversity patterns in the Chesapeake Bay using noninvasive environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling. I like to call it “environmental forensics.”
"As human activity continues to affect biogeochemical processes and release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it is important to try to understand the oceanic carbon storage capacity as our planet continues to change."
"Understanding these behaviors and movements are important because it will help us manage, and hopefully protect them from, potential disturbances in the future."
After working on a new way to the determine the age of fish, graduate student Ben Frey begins a Knauss Fellowship in NOAA’s National Ocean Services’ Marine Debris Program.
