Elizabeth Brasseale is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington using oceanography to interpret eDNA samples for biomonitoring cetaceans. She was a postdoctoral scholar in the Giddings lab from September 2020-December 2022 where she modeled water quality as a function of pollutant decay and sinking using regional ocean models as part of the U.S. Coastal Research Program. Previously, Elizabeth studied estuarine-shelf interactions and larval transport of marine invasive species in the Pacific northwest during her doctoral studies at the University of Washington, advised by Parker MacCready.