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., Spera, A., Cartafalsa, T., Tamborski, J., Eagle, M., and Guimond, J. (in review). Cold season freeze-thaw processes in salt marshes: Implications for surface water – groundwater exchange. Water Resources Research.
Boles E., Rogers J., da Silva R., and Monismith S. (2026). Phase-resolved modeling of wave transformation over periodic spur and groove bathymetry on coral reefs. Coastal Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2026.105032
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., Mucciarone, D., Takeshita, Y., Monismith, G., 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
