Cheryl Greengrove, Associate Professor of Geoscience is a founding faculty member of the Environmental Science Program at University of Washington Tacoma. She is a physical oceanographer presently working with biological, chemical and geological oceanographers on studying Harmful Algal Blooms in Puget Sound and estuarine processes in Barkley and Clayoquot Sounds on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Her favorite activity is taking her students in the field and involving them in hands-on research.