Erik’s research focuses on how currents and eddies in the ocean transport heat and nutrients, as well as marine organisms and plastics between different regions of the ocean. He uses both data from ocean observations as well as from computer simulations of the ocean to understand how different regions of the ocean are connected. Erik was awarded an ARC DECRA fellowship in 2013, and received the 2016 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the European Geosciences Union Ocean Division.