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
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
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
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
American Meteorological Society, 2009-present
American Geophysical Union, 2013-present