Study ocean circulation & water masses in the Southern Hemisphere Oceans using observations & model simulations to improve the understanding of the Global Overturning Circulation.
Interests: Air-Sea Interactions, Global overturning circulation, Remote sensing
I am a benthic community ecologist. I study larval dispersal & recruitment of invertebrates to understand how isolated, island-like habitats such as shipwrecks are colonized & connected.
We study the sensory biology, focusing on bioacoustics, including how animals detect or are impacted by natural & human produced sounds (and noise), soundscape patterns, biodiversity, & solutions.
We study the resilience of seafloor animal communities to disturbance (both natural & human) by examining dispersal of their larvae in ocean currents, & their settlement back to suitable habitat.
Physical processes that determine how vegetated habitats (green infrastructure), such as seagrasses, salt marsh, & mangroves, influence sediment transport & provide coastal protection.
The Nicholson lab applies sensor-based observations & numerical models to understand & predict the flow of carbon & related elements through the ocean in the context of a changing climate.
