Research
Temperature Extremes (PhD Work)
I am currently a PhD student working with Dr. Talia Tamarin-Brodsky at MIT EAPS. My work focuses on understanding the processes leading to the formation and termination of extreme temperature events. I approach this work from a Lagrangian standpoint, tracking air parcels entering/exiting an area of anomalous temperature to understand how they acquire and lose their temperature anomaly.
Atmospheric Rivers
During my undergrad, I worked with Dr. Robert Rauber on the Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE). My research focused on the impact of atmospheric rivers (AR) on orographic clouds in the western United States using the Weather, Research and Forecasting model with water vapor tracers.
A case study of two winter storms from SNOWIE indicated Pacific subtropical moisture significantly contributed to precipitation during the AR passage, as well as to orographic clouds at high altitudes during and post-AR passage. The paper on this work can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037727
Polar Vortex + Antarctic Sea Ice
During an internship at the Chemical Sciences Lab at NOAA ESRL, I worked with Dr. Amy Butler and Dr. Dillon Elsbury to investigate the connection between Antarctic sea ice loss and the stratospheric circulation. We performed statistical analyses and wave decompositions on output from a 16-member CAM6 ensemble, and found evidence that anomalously low Antarctic sea ice concentration during austral fall forces an earlier transition of the Southern Hemisphere polar vortex to its summertime state. The paper on this work can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107478