About

I am a geographer, which – as Hal Mooney suggested – means that I am, “concerned with the changing spatial organization and material character of Earth’s surface.” Currently, I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Oregon where I am fully funded by NASA to utilize satellite-based observations to improve our representation and understanding of the water cycle. I work with my advisor Sarah Cooley and her research group at Duke University’s Divison of Earth and Climate Sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment.

On seeing Earth from space

Watch Arctic lakes expand and contract throughout the summer from a satellite's-eye point of view.

This animation shows how the lake area anomaly -- or difference from average lake area -- progresses through a typical summer. To produce this animation, I mapped lake extents in every available Sentinel-2 image from 2016-2023, in over 75,000 watersheds across the Arctic. You can read more about this specific project on the 'research' page.

“Who would not choose to follow the sound of running waters? …I can lean on the rail of a little bridge over a brook and contemplate its currents, its whirlpools, and its steady flow for as long as you like; with no sense or fear of that other flowing within and about me, that swift gliding away of time.” -Thomas Mann

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