[2] On March 11, 2021, she became the 20th person to descend to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point in the Earth's seabed.

Though the Challenger Deep is in Micronesia, she is the first Micronesian and first Pacific Islander to make the descent, as well as the fourth woman and the second-youngest person.

While at the Chaminade University of Honolulu, she studied ornamental fish in Hawaii, especially the yellow tang, and tink frogs in Costa Rica.

[3] Her dissertation was Studying the Ecophysiological Responses of Native Hawaiian Macroalgae in a Changing World.

[4] She made her 10-hour trip to and from the Challenger Deep with pilot Victor Vescovo aboard the DSV Limiting Factor, launching from the DSSV Pressure Drop.