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Education & Experience

  • Postdoctoral Investigator, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, May 2025 – Present
  • Ph.D. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Stanford University, 2025
    • Thesis Title: Turbulent Tales from a Rough Coral Reef: Effects of nonuniform roughness on waves, turbulence, and scalar fluxes
    • Advised by Prof. Stephen Monismith
  • M.S. in Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2019-2021
  • Research Assistant in Arctique Boréal Carbone lab at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France, 2018-2019
  • B.S. in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018

Publications

  • Boles E., Rogers J., da Silva R., and Monismith S. (in review). Wave transformation over periodic spurs and grooves on coral reefs. Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
  • Boles E., Khrizman A., Hamilton J., Mucciarone D., Dunbar R., Monismith S. (in review). Measuring metabolic fluxes on shallow, wavy coral reefs. JGR: Oceans.
  • Hamilton J., Boles E., Khrizman A., Monismith S., Koseff J. (in review). Investigation of benthic fluxes in unidirectional and oscillatory flow over shallow coral reefs. Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
  • Sartori G., Boles E., Monismith S., Dunbar R., Mumby P., Khrizman A., Tatebe L., Capozzi R. (2025). Morphologically driven sedimentation patterns on a coral reef. Coral Reefs. 44, pp. 591-607.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02629-6
  • Khrizman A., Lindhart M., Boles E., Dunbar R. (2025). Reef Community Productivity and Calcification – Spatial and Temporal Variability in Recovering Coral Reefs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021592
  • Boles E., Hamilton J., Koseff J., and Monismith S. (2024). Bottom stress and drag on a shallow coral reef. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 129, e2024JC021528. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021528
  • Babbin A. R., Boles E., Mühle J. & Weiss R. (2020). On the natural spatio-temporal heterogeneity of South Pacific nitrous oxide. Nature Communications. 11, 3672. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17509-6
  • Boles E., Provost C., Garçon V., Koenig Z., Bertosio C., Athanase M. and Sennéchael N. (2020). Under-ice phytoplankton blooms in the central Arctic Ocean: Insights from the first biogeochemical IAOOS platform drift in 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015608

Teaching & Mentorship

  • Women in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering (WICGE): mentor, 2025
  • Ocean Waves: Co-instructor/T.A., Stanford University, Spring 2024
  • Corals of Palau: Ecology, the Physical Environment, and Reefs at Risk (undergraduate field research class in Palau): T.A., Stanford University, Summer 2022
  • Introduction to Physical Oceanography: T.A., Stanford University, Winters 2021 & 2022

Fellowships & Awards

  • USGS Mendenhall Fellowship, 2024 (cancelled due to federal hiring freeze)
  • Friends of Hopkins graduate student grant, 2023
  • Partnerships for Climate Justice in the Bay Stanford Fellowship, 2022
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2019-2024
  • Alyce B. and Henry J. Ramey Jr. Stanford Graduate Fellow, 2019-2022
  • Stanford Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship, 2019
  • Christopher Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research, 2018