In 2012 I joined Gretchen Hofmann’s lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara with a focus on combining molecular techniques with physiological and morphological measurements to understand how marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and ocean warming. As a molecular ecologist, I am interested in understanding how the environment shapes and organisms molecular phenotype. Along the US West Coast, I am using comparative transcriptomics to better understand how the pelagic marine snails known as sea butterflies will fare in future ocean conditions.