I am a PhD student in the Cordes Lab at Temple University in Philadelphia. My primary interests are to know more about the deep sea and understand the communities that live in it. My research is focused on the restoration of deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a collaborative work with Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Community (MDBC) project, focusing on how the DeepWater Horizon oil spill affected communities in the meso and deep-sea and what we can do to diminish its impacts.
I'm also studying the the deep-sea communities in Puerto Rico, Gulf of Mexico and Mid-Atlantic Ocean, their abundance, richness and connectivity among those sites.