Curriculum Vitae

Extended C.V.

Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2016
Dissertation: The Roles of Land and Orography on Precipitation and Ocean Circulation in Global Climate Models
Advisors: Dargan Frierson and David Battisti

M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2013
Thesis: The location of tropical precipitation in idealized atmospheric GCMs forced with Andes topography and surface heat fluxes

S.B., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
S.B., Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
Senior thesis: Impact of Arctic cloud water and ice on cloud radiative forcing during the Arctic summer cloud-ocean study in August 2008
Minor in music

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), 2016-present

Research Assistant, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2010-2016

Undergraduate Instructor, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences, ATMS 290 The Weather Challenge, Fall 2014, Fall 2015

Teaching Assistant, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences, ATMS 101, Weather 101 Winter 2012

Grader, UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences, ATMS 321, Science of Climate, Spring 2013

Awards and Honors

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program on Ocean Change Traineeship, 2013-2015

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Outstanding Student Paper Award, December 2014

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, 2010-2013

UW Atmospheric Sciences Caldwell Scholarship, 2010

Christopher Goetze Prize for undergraduate research from MIT EAPS, 2010

NOAA Hollings Scholar, 2008-2010

Leadership and Activities

Eighth Graduate Climate Conference Organizing Committee, Advertising Manager and Climate Dynamics Session Chair, 2014

UW WxChallenge Team Manager, 2011-2014, Participant, 2007-2010, 2011-2016

UW Atmospheric Sciences Spring Forecast Contest Winner, 2013

UW Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Representative, 2012-2014

UW Atmospheric Sciences Outreach, 2010-2016

Memberships

American Meteorological Society, 2009-present

American Geophysical Union, 2013-present