Postdoctoral Fellow

Julia (she/hers) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (UW SAFS) and the NOAA Alaska Fishery Science Center (NOAA AFSC). Currently, she is working with André Punt (UW SAFS), Sarah Wise (NOAA AFSC), and Kirstin Holsman (NOAA AFSC) on the Alaska Climate Integrated Modeling Project to evaluate temperature-driven changes to fish size and nutritional content and impacts on food security in Alaska.

Julia received her PhD in Fisheries Science in August 2025 from UW SAFS, advised by Dr. Tim Essington. Her PhD research focused on estimating effects of changing oxygen and temperature on groundfish distributions in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. She holds a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from Wesleyan University, and has previously worked at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, WA, Oregon Sea Grant with the South Slough Estuary Reserve in Charleston, OR, and the Organization for Tropical Studies in South Africa. She also works in science policy, including in 2023 in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with the Climate and Environment Team. She grew up in Connecticut and Everett, WA.