Erica’s research focuses on the interactions that exist between ocean global-change processes, marine organisms, and fishery systems. Erica is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow studying the effects of ocean warming, deoxygenation, and harmful algal blooms on California Dungeness crab as part of the Kroeker Lab, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Prior to beginning her postdoc at UCSC, Erica completed her Ph.D. in Marine Biology, with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Environmental Research, at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the Aburto Lab. Long-term, Erica hopes to use her science to help generate ‘conservation solutions’ to coastal and open-ocean issues in the face of a rapidly changing climate.