Experience

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant with Professor Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle (2015-2020)

Served in ground and assistant flight scientist roles for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 NASA ORACLES aircraft campaign deployments in Namibia and São Tomé e Príncipe.

Analyzed aircraft observations, satellite retrievals, and output from regional climate models and Large Eddy Simulation models to assess the influence of aerosol emissions from biomass burning and international shipping on clouds over the southeast Atlantic Ocean and the implications for regional and global climate.

Honors Thesis with Professor Ralf Bennartz, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (2014-2015)

Conducted research on how differences in sea surface temperature and precipitation anomalies between eastern and central Pacific El Niño events varied among observational datasets.

Undergraduate Research Assistant with Professor Steven Goodbred, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (2012-2015)

Evaluated evidence of early Holocene “megaflood” events from the Tsangpo gorge through laboratory and idealized modeling work.

Participated in field work in rural Bangladesh studying salt water intrusion and differential subsidence between inhabited areas and the Sundarbans mangrove forest.

Undergraduate Research Assistant with Professor Daniel Morgan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (2012)

Prepared samples of Antarctic granites for use in cosmogenic isotope dating.

Teaching Experience

Organizer, ATM S 493/591: Justice and Equity in Academia and Beyond, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (Fall 2020)

Instructor of record: Cecilia Bitz

Helped create and lead seminar series on issues of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Atmospheric Sciences and geosciences field more broadly.

Led two-week unit on Indigenous history, rights, and knowledge systems.

Guest Lecturer, ATM S 220: Exploring the Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (Winter & Summer 2020)

Instructors of record: Yue Dong (Winter) and Samuel Pennypacker (Summer)

Gave lecture about clouds and climate, focusing on how clouds confound our ability to quantify equilibrium climate sensitivity (because of uncertain cloud feedbacks) and present-day radiative forcing due to human activities (because of uncertain aerosol-cloud interactions).

Instructor of Record, ATM S 211: Climate & Climate Change, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (Summer 2019)

Revamped curriculum to include a new dedicated unit on the carbon cycle, a discussion of the debate over “The Anthropocene” at the end of the paleoclimate units, and non-textbook materials like portions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and the U.S. National Climate Assessment in all units.

Instituted weekly discussion periods where students presented on pre-selected scientific papers and excerpts from climate and ozone assessment reports.

Replaced in-class final examination with in-class presentations and final papers on a climate change mitigation or adaptation challenge of the students’ choosing.

Guest Lecturer, Frontiers of Science & AP Environmental Science, Sammamish High School, Bellevue, Washington (2018-2019)

Co-produced teaching materials with teachers Lisa Neshyba and Kristin Larson.

Created curriculum for teaching climate change through a problem-based learning module focused on the controversy over geoengineering proposals.

Developed interactive, simple planetary energy balance models for Earth or an exoplanet for in-class use during units on Earth’s energy balance (Fall climate change unit) and planetary habitability (Spring astrobiology unit).

Teaching Assistant, ATM S 211: Climate & Climate Change, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (Spring 2017)

Instructor of record: Robert Wood

Created and graded homework assignments and exams, ran Quiz Sections, & held office hours.

Developed new interactive activities using outreach materials and publicly-available online models for use in Quiz Sections.

Teaching Assistant, EES 201: Global Climate Change, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (Fall 2013 & 2014)

Instructor of record: Jonathan Gilligan

Graded homework assignments, held office hours, & gave one guest lecture on carbon budgets and the potential for a “carbon bubble.”