Lauren is an Environmental Scientist at the State Water Resources Control Board in San Diego. She completed her PhD in May 2024 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography working with co-advisors Levy, Giddings and Merrifield. Broadly, she is interested in coastal ocean processes and their interactions with land. Her first chapter focused on the morphodynamic responses of a dune-backed beach during high-energy storm conditions in the Outer Banks, NC while her other dissertation chapters focused on the influence of coastal processes and morphodynamics at a low-inflow-estuary mouth on freshwater resources upstream. Originally from Los Angeles, she received her BS in physics with a minor in physiology from Cal Poly, Pomona in 2017.