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Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 2021
  • M.S., Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 2013
  • B.S., Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 2012
Professional Honors
  • Fulbright Futures Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2016-2020
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 2012
Professional Affiliations
  • Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Advisory Committee, 2024-2027
  • Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Languages
  • Spanish

Dr. Lilly is a biological oceanographer with interdisciplinary background and expertise in marine food webs, climate-ocean dynamics, human use and management of coastal systems, and sustainability and climate solutions. Dr. Lilly possesses over a decade of experience in oceanography and marine resources, ecological systems, and climate change and adaptation, with extensive skills in both technical data analysis and effective communication.

Dr. Lilly's graduate and postdoctoral training focused on quantifying the impacts of climate variability and physical ocean changes on marine zooplankton and finfish in various geographic regions of the California Current System and global oceans. At Ģtv, Dr. Lilly has evaluated impacts of offshore wind-induced electromagnetic fields (EMF) on marine ecosystems, threats to endangered marine and freshwater species from coastal development and roadways, potential degradation of coastal wetlands in areas of oil and gas brine discharge, and transport and impacts of chemical contaminants in deep-ocean, coastal, riparian, and terrestrial environments. She also has experience developing and implementing institutional waste reduction programs and extensive working knowledge of climate adaptation and engineering solutions, including carbon capture, uptake, and storage (CCUS) and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR).

Dr. Lilly has various technical capabilities, including an array of statistical data analysis skills (timeseries analysis, ecological statistics, evaluation of large and incomplete datasets, and data interpolation), Lagrangian particle tracking, GIS mapping, and coding languages (R, MATLAB, Python). She has conducted extensive literature reviews and critical assessment of scientific publications and has authored scientific blogs for public information outreach. Dr. Lilly has extensive experience in team collaboration and leadership as a seagoing oceanographer with over 250 days at sea, including on-the-deck troubleshooting ability for faulty scientific instrumentation and software.