I’m a coastal ecologist who is broadly interested in how foundation species (abundant species that generate biogenic habitat) and their associated communities are affected by ongoing climate change, and what people can do to help. My journey to my current research interests has been circuitous, to say the least. I started out volunteering in an analytical chemistry lab at the University of Victoria during my second year of studies, which launched me into a grab-bag of chemical research for the rest of my undergraduate degree. During this period, I branched out to work in solar materials, organometallic, and organic synthetic chemistry. Now, I do none of these things. After taking a very fun marine-focused invertebrates elective, I spontaneously applied for field school at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, where I got stoked on the sea. There, I met Dr. Christopher Harley from the University of British Columbia, and managed to finagle my way into a PhD program under his supervision, where my research examined how marine invertebrate species like oysters, barnacles, and mussels (and their associated meiofauna) respond to thermal stress. I recently took a year “off” to work with A Rocha Canada doing riparian restoration, wildflower meadow naturalization, and species-at-risk monitoring in the Tatalu (Little Campbell) watershed in South Surrey, British Columbia. Now, I have returned to academia as an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Anne Salomon’s Ocean Relations Collaborative at Simon Fraser University. Here, I am looking at the effects of warming seas on kelp social-ecological systems along the BC coast. When not at work, I spend my time training for triathlons, playing board games, hiking, knitting, and appreciating plants and birds.