Lucy is Associate Professor at the United States Coast Guard Academy. In 2003, she received her Ph.D. in Marine Ecology from the University of California-Irvine after completing an undergraduate program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and graduate work at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse. She served as a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the United States Coast Guard Academy before taking a faculty position at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. In 2009, she returned to the United States Coast Guard Academy, where she teaches courses in marine ecology, atmospheric and marine sciences, and coral reef ecology. Lucy conducts collaborative research in the field of marine ecology and conservation. Her research explores changes in the physical marine environment caused by human activities and associated impacts on marine consumers and their food webs. Most recently, she has conducted studies addressing environmental considerations in coastal and offshore wind energy development, climate-related shifts in the ecology of gelatinous consumers native to New England estuaries, and habitat use by demersal fishes of conservation interest in estuaries on Long Island Sound. (June 2014) KCAW INTERVIEW