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About Me
About Me
My research focuses on components of the carbon cycle: production and storage in terrestrial and aquatic systems, and transport in the atmosphere. As an Ecosystem Scientist at the Biodiversity Research Institute, I develop methods for monitoring soil carbon in grassland ecosystems. I previously held the Daly Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, working on the global methane cycle and changes to Arctic communities. On the MethaneSAT science team, I contributed to an inverse model linking satellite observations of methane with sources on the ground. I obtained my PhD in 2023 from Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, where I was a NASA FINESST fellow. My dissertation focused on greenhouse gas emissions from northern lakes and wetlands. I have used high-resolution optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing datasets from airborne and UAV campaigns. This work has supported the NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) and Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) and Environmental Defense Fund MethaneSAT satellites. My field work has included the Alaskan permafrost, Canadian boreal zone, Arizonan Sonoran desert, and the wilds of Connecticut. I have taught in Providence Public Schools and in Brown’s summer high school program. When I'm not analyzing geospatial data sets, I enjoy jazz piano, vegetable gardening, and traveling by bicycle.
About the banner photo: I took this photo from an airplane when leaving Canvasback Lake in Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, north of Fairbanks, AK. I spent four days with a field team in a Fish & Wildlife Service cabin on the edge of the trees in the top left of the image. The lake's sinuous shape comes from encroaching vegetation stands and an old river channel to which it is now connected.
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