Margaret Daly
Earth Scientist
Margaret Daly
Earth Scientist
Biography
Margaret Daly, PhD, is an Earth scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with expertise spanning ecosystem service modeling, energy resilience, and coastal oceanography. Her current work includes assessing offshore transmission impacts on coastal communities, developing artificial intelligence tools for marine monitoring, and forecasting landfast ice breakup in the Arctic. During her PhD work at Stanford University, she conducted research on kelp forest hydrodynamics, analyzed illegal fishing risk in seafood supply chains, and developed deep learning methods for sea otter detection from aerial imagery.
Research Interest
- Energy resilience
- Coastal oceanography
Education
- PhD in physical oceanography, Stanford University, 2024
- MS in environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology, Stanford University, 2019
- BS in Earth systems, concentration in ocean sciences, Cornell University, 2017