Her research focuses on themes related to communication, ecosystem sustainability, social-environmental justice, and resilience. She uses engaged research methods to study and help shape communication within sustainability science and coastal and freshwater management contexts. Her work has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Ecology and Society, Environmental Communication, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and Philosophy and Rhetoric. She received a Ph.D. in Communication with a concentration in Sustainability Science from the University of Maine in 2013.