I recently joined the faculty of UMass Boston's School for the Environment. I came to Boston from Mississippi State University, where I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences and held a joint appointment with the Northern Gulf Institute, a NOAA Cooperative Institute. My academic journey has also taken me to the Georgia Institute of Technology and Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where I held postdoctoral research appointments. I earned my Ph.D. in Climate Science from Utah State University in 2018. Outside academia, I cherish spending time with my family.

I go by Henry. I earned my PhD in Climate Science from Utah State University in 2018. My research focuses on understanding the dynamics driving climate variability, weather extremes, and regional climate change. My current research is focused on the downscaling and projections of TC precipitation. 

I graduated from Vermont State University–Lyndon in 2024 with a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences and minors in mathematics and physics. My research examines how land-use change influences surface energy fluxes, planetary boundary-layer structure, and regional hydroclimate, with a focus on the Mississippi Delta and broader land–atmosphere feedbacks under a warming climate. In my spare time, I volunteer as a firefighter and hope to advance fire-weather science by using high-resolution, long-term climate models to improve the prediction of large-scale fire events.

My research is broadly focused on leveraging tree-ring data to better constrain projections of future hydroclimate variability. I earned an M.S. in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from Nanjing Normal University in 2024, where my research examined how national carbon neutrality goals contribute to mitigating future global warming. Outside of work, I'm an avid fan of Metroidvania games and jazz music, and I enjoy playing the drum kit in my free time.

I am a first-year graduate student pursuing a Master’s of Geosciences with a concentration in Applied Meteorology. I earned my bachelor’s degree from the University of South Alabama, where I majored in Professional Meteorology and minored in mathematics and geographic information systems. I currently work at State Farm as a Catastrophe Risk Analyst. Here at Mississippi State, my research interests are focused on the impacts of large-scale climate teleconnections on regional weather variability and extremes. Outside of work, I enjoy beading, baking, weather photography, the outdoors, and spending time with my husband and dog. 

Thesis: Reconstructing the Hydroclimatic History of the Mississippi River Basin Over the Past Millennium

Thesis: The Role of ENSO Diversity in Modulating Tornadic Activity in the United States 

Thesis: Discriminating Anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse gases forcing impact on Tropical cyclone frequency from downscaling CMIP6 models 

Thesis: Understanding the impact of tropical sea surface temperature biases on the projection of North American precipitation