I am a second year graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of California, Irvine. My interests lie in the mechanical constraints imposed by hydrodynamics on the locomotion, circulation, and feeding of aquatic organisms. In past projects, I have looked at the hydrodynamics of thrust production in ascidian larvae, the mechanisms of phototaxis of ascidian larvae, and the settlement/transport processes of gastropod larvae. I am currently working in the McHenry Laboratory, which focuses on the biomechanics of aquatic organisms with a particular emphasis on the vertebrates.