Other activities
Cross-institute collaborations
Study creeping landslides using a network model which uses soil moisture simulations from WRF-Hydro as the input (Prof. Daniels’s Lab at NC State University)
Study shallow landslides with 2-D slope stability models which use soil moisture simulations from WRF-Hydro as the input (Prof. Buscarnera’s Lab in Civil and Engineering Department of Northwestern University)
Study urban flooding and global drought (Prof. Chen’s Lab at Wuhan University, China. One manuscript is currently under review at the Journal of Hydrology, and one manuscript is in prep)
Study the changes and recovery of grain size distribution from the impacts of postfire debris flows using the peak discharge simulations from WRF-Hydro as the input (Prof. Pfeiffer’s Lab at Western Washington University). One manuscript by Telly Olsen is in preparation.
CLaSH summer field course
I was selected to go to this wonderful summer field course sponsored by the Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH).
I spent 6 days learning and conducting field surveys in a postfire watershed in Fort Collins, CO, from Jul 17-22, 2023. There, I gained hands-on experience with Uncrewed Arial Vehicles (UAVs) and Photogrammetry, Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS), and kinematic GPS and learned how to design and implement field surveys for surface change detection.
Mentor for undergraduate research
Starting June 2023, I have been serving as the mentor for the senior thesis of our undergraduate researcher Aidan Ocampo. Aidan's 2023 summer research was funded by NSF's Asian American and Pacific Islander research grant under the AGILE Professional Development Program (AAPIG).
Aidan gave a poster presentation on our newest study entitled "One-Way Coupled Post-Fire Debris Flow Modeling Using WRF-Hydro and RAMMS" during the 2023 AGU in San Francisco, CA.
Topic lead for soil moisture working group
Soil moisture working group organized by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Starting August 2023, I have been leading interdisciplinary collaborations for a review paper on "soil moisture in compound hazards"
Team members from various institutes including ETH Zürich, University of Utrecht, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Nevada, Montana Tech, etc.
ForceSMIP Hackathon at NCAR
Forced Component Estimation Statistical Method Intercomparison Project (ForceSMIP) in-person hackathon at NCAR, Boulder, CO, from Aug 28-31, 2023.
Convergence Research Institute Fellowship
I received the Convergence Research (CORE) Institute 2023 Fellowship in May 2023. This is a fellowship program supported by NSF and UC-San Diego.
I spent 6 weeks attending bootcamps and idea incubation meetings on the topic "Tackling Climate-Induced Challenges with AI".
I was on a wildfire team working with geologists, hydrologists, atmospheric scientists, data scientists, and economists from universities, national labs, and data companies
Co-covener for AGU session
I'm serving as a student convener for the 2023 AGU session EP11D - Drivers of Earth's Surface Change in an Era of Rapid Climate and Land Use Change
Invited visit to Peking University, China
I was invited to give a talk at Dr. Dongfeng Li's Lab meeting at Peking University in December 2023.