I am a Data Scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service. As a liaison for the NOAA Fisheries Open Science Initiative, I provide support and training to modernize and streamline NOAA Fisheries data workflows. I recently completed my doctoral degree studying broad-scale dynamics of western Atlantic teleost communities. In addition to being a fish geek, I have a passion for mathematics and hold a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Miami with majors in Marine Science, Biology, and Statistics. My research interests include marine ecology, spatiotemporal dynamics of fishes across multiple scales of space, time, and biological organization, open source science, spatial and community analysis in R, and species distribution modeling. I am particularly fascinated with metacommunity theory, which seeks to reconcile the local and regional processes that influence the distribution of organisms in space and time.