I'm a PhD-trained climate scientist with over 10 years of experience in atmospheric and climate research. I have enjoyed collaborating with colleagues across California, the US, and the world, particularly in South America. My research has focused on observational analyses (satellite, ground-based, airborne, and reanalysis fields) of the radiative effects (i.e., heating or cooling) of different anthropogenic activities. My most recent work has focused on aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions in regions with significant absorbing aerosol, such as biomass burning smoke particles. I have also used satellite observations to quantify the global heating due to Arctic ice decline, and conducted data analysis from ground-based air quality monitoring stations, including interfacing with local technicians. I also have significant experience in science communication to general, educational (K-16), and policy audiences, in both English and Spanish. I have a strong interest in applying my expertise towards not just quantifying but addressing the impacts of climate change, always with a mind to the crucial equity and justice considerations surrounding these issues, and I'd love to connect with others towards that goal.
Research Scientist, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center (October 2017-present).
Ongoing multi-instrument analysis of aerosol, cloud, and meteorological properties from aircraft, satellite, ground-based instruments, and reanalysis. Focus on direct and indirect aerosol radiative and dynamical effects in a biomass burning regime.
Published results in peer-reviewed journals, both as a first author and as part of multi-institutional collaborations. Presented at national and international conferences (AGU, AMS, GRC, EGU).
Developed and tested instrument algorithms to retrieve aerosol properties from remote-sensed sky radiances measured from an airborne platform. Products are archived in NASA airborne science archives.
Instrument calibration, quality control, and archival of aerosol measurements from NASA airborne field campaigns (ORACLES and NAAMES).
Program support for student airborne science activation project. Organized professional and scientific mentoring for a summer cohort of 25 early undergraduate students. Worked closely with the Project Manager on equity, diversity, and inclusion and pedagogical best-practices in student evaluation and selection and programming, and securing guest speakers, and training and supporting five near-peer graduate student mentors for summer 2022.
Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Ames Research Center (October 2015-October 2017).
Studied aerosol-cloud interactions in different climatic regimes using airborne and ground-based data from NASA field campaigns (ARCTAS and ORACLES).
Participated in aircraft field deployment, instrument operation, and pre- and post-deployment calibration, maintenance, and data processing and archival for the Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking, Atmospheric Research (4STAR) during ORACLES 2016 and 2017.
Worked with the broader ORACLES science team on multi-instrument data analysis and scientific interpretation.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate/Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences (April-October 2015).
Assisted with various committee consensus reports and workshops for both Boards from conception through dissemination, with a major role in facilitating early stages of The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research report (committee meetings, community survey development & response).
Fulbright Grantee, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2, Departamento de Geofísica, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (March-December 2014). Fulbright Student Program.
Studied pollution distribution and composition within the Santiago, Chile basin using ground-based and satellite data, and its evolution over time.
Interacted with employees of the Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (Chilean Environment Ministry) to secure access to long-term air quality monitoring data and important metadata from 11 stations in the city.
Graduate Student Researcher, Ramanathan Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (June 2009-February 2014).
Used NASA satellite data to quantitatively estimate the radiative effects of the Arctic sea ice retreat over the 30-year observational period.
Participated in the 6-week field deployment for the Clouds, Aerosols, Radiative-forcing, Dynamics EXperiment (CARDEX) on Hanimaadhoo Island, northern Maldives in 2012, involving small aircraft (UAVs) and a ground-based observatory. Included in-field instrument operation and data quality assurance and post-processing.
Studied the relationships between aerosol, cloud, and meteorological properties in the trade cumulus regime of the northern Indian Ocean using data from CARDEX.