About
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate studying turbulence in fog, snow, and at the cloud boundary. I completed my Ph.D in May 2024 in Dr. Tim Garrett's research group in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah. I am continuing my research studying the relationship between the global-scale properties of a planet and its general circulation, atmospheric stability, cloud characteristics, and cloud microphysical processes. I study cloud perimeters on Earth as measured from several satellite platforms and cloud resolving Large Eddy Simulations. I plan to compare these observations with those of Jupiter (from the Hubble Space Telescope and Junocam) and other bodies in the Solar System, and later extend the theory to exoplanets.
For my Master's Degree completed in 2020, I worked closely with a team of engineers developing a hotplate disdrometer that measures the mass and density of individual snowflakes. I worked closely with the Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC) and Differential Emmisivity Imaging Disdrometer (DEID). My work on these instruments ranged from the mechanics (development, building, maintaining, deploying, and troubleshooting) to the final data output (post-processing and data analysis).
My undergraduate research was focused on the Hadley cells of various Solar System planets and Titan. Here, we tested an analytical expression for the latitudinal Hadley cell width on Earth and the locations of similar global circulations on other planetary atmospheres.
Prior to my undergraduate work, I was an Air Force Meteorologist and served five years in Active Duty and three years in the Reserves.