Her teaching includes environmental history and history of science, as well as interdisciplinary maritime studies courses. She is currently researching undersea exploration in the 1960s, a time when ocean boosters had optimistic dreams for working and living in the sea. Her work considers ocean exploration as a category of exploration of extreme environments including outer space and the polar regions. She is currently guest curator for an upcoming exhibit at Mystic Seaport titled “Sinister Seas.” Her award-winning book, Fathoming the Ocean: