Wave is a second year PhD student in the Heppell Lab. She researches fish community dynamics in Oregon's kelp forests using in-situ SCUBA surveys and eDNA analysis.
Before coming to OSU, Wave conducted prior work examining the impacts of environmental stressors to marine species. During her undergrad at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), she looked at the effects of temperature on feeding behavior in California moray eels to better understand what factors may affect their predatory role in California kelp forests. She then moved on to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UC San Diego. Her research focused on temperature-dependent feeding behavior in the brown box crab, an emergent fishery in Southern California. While in San Diego, she also worked as the Marketing Assistant at Birch Aquarium.
Wave is an avid scientific diver and volunteers as a dive master for OSU's recreational diving program.
