January 2026: I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Coastal Hydrology and Chemistry at Imperial College London in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering!
I am currently a researcher (forskare) in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I previously completed a postdoc supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Gothenburg, 2021-2023) and my PhD in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2020. My research interests include coastal hydrology, submarine groundwater discharge, and emerging contaminants. I am particularly interested in the combining field-based geochemical techniques and machine learning to study human impact on aquatic environments. More broadly, I am interested in understanding anthropogenic forcings on natural systems as well as applying data science and machine learning to investigate environmental problems.
I completed my PhD in Geology & Geophysics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researching the intersection of coastal hydrology, groundwater contamination, and sea-level rise using geochemical tracers.
At the University of Hawaiʻi, I was also actively involved with the Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute and the Hawaiʻi EPSCoR ʻIke Wai project conducting research combining deep learning, sensor development, and field-based submarine groundwater discharge data to learn more about its drivers, sources of uncertainty, and possibility of upscaling local-scale measurements.
Contact: tristan dot mckenzie at gu dot se
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