Victoria received a B.Sc in Marine biology and Oceanography from the University of Wales, Bangor in 1998 and continued on to a Ph.D in Ocean Optics from Southampton Institute in 2002. Victoria's thesis focused on characterizing the absorption spectra of phytoplankton, to enable identification in mixed populations. This work included laboratory grown cultures and natural samples collected from the West coast of Ireland and on the Atlantic Meridional Transect in May2000.
Currently Victoria is working on the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions project, in the Chukchi Sea. Work includes phytoplankton succession based on chemotaxomonic pigments, optical characterization of the Arctic Ocean, investigation into the impact of dissolved organic material on heating budgets and regional tuning of remotely sensed ocean colour and productivity algorithms.
