About

About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate living and working in Salt, Lake City, Utah. I work in the Deep Convection and Tropical Cyclones Research group at the University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Here, my research ranges from understanding the nature of tropical mesoscale convection to evaluating the errors in satellite-based precipitation monitoring systems such as the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Mission (GPM).

My PhD was under Dr. Anantha Aiyyer in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS), at North Carolina State University (NCSU). There my research was focused on investigating the connection between African Easterly Waves, a precursor to tropical cyclones, and convection.

Previously, I completed my Masters degree in Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology in December 2014. There, I worked under Dr. David Parsons and Dr. Steven Cavallo in the Antarctic and Arctic Atmospheric Research Group (AAARG). My Masters research involved using data from the Concordiasi field program to evaluate the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS).

Before that, I obtained my undergraduate MMet degree in Meteorology from the University of Reading in July 2012. There my thesis focused on the development of a simple model for large scale circulation in the tropics. During my undergraduate degree, I also spent a year studying abroad at the University of Oklahoma.