Life in a freshwater pond is profuse, with layer upon layer of organisms forming food chains and ecological communities all dependent on each other and sensitive to the world around them.

Sophia Fox moved to the Outer Cape as the Aquatic Ecologist for the Cape Cod National Seashore in 2010 following a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Boston University Marine Program in Woods Hole and research into such things as wastewater pollution and water quality in the Venice Lagoon and the impacts of deforestation on the mangrove swamps of Panama. At the seashore, she conducts scientific monitoring and research in the Park’s freshwater and coastal ecosystems, focusing on understanding and predicting natural and human-driven changes to marine and freshwater ecosystems, including the effects of global climate change on water quality, biological processes and food web interactions.