George Mason University

Graduate Research Assistant

• Advised by Dr. Paul A. Dirmeyer
• Dean’s Graduate Award for Excellence
• Dissertation title: The Role of Large-Scale Land-Use Change on the Global Climate; Response and Sensitivity to Amazon Deforestation
• Graduate Teaching Assistant

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Summer Intern

• Advised by Hilary L. Justh
• Funded by North Carolina Space Grant
• Verification of Mars-GRAM upper atmospheric density estimates with observed data from past aerobraking missions for the development of Autonomous Aerobraking.

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Summer Intern

• Advised by Hilary L. Justh
• Finished 2nd place in NASA Summer Intern Poster competition held by Lockheed Martin.
• Universities Space Research Association Intern
• Completed a comparison study of Mars atmospheric density estimates from Mars atmospheric models to measurement estimates from Mars Global Surveyor data.

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Research Scientist

• My research focuses on advancing our understanding of the hydrologic cycle in the climate system across a range of spatial and temporal scales through the use of advanced statistical methods and state-of-the-art computational models.
• Co-author for National Climate Assessment.
• Lecturer in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
• Member of MS and PhD Committees.

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin

NOAA Climate Assessment Report

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin

NOAA Climate Assessment Report

Assessing the robustness of snow-based drought indicators in the Upper Colorado River Basin under future climate change

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin

NOAA Climate Assessment Report

Assessing the robustness of snow-based drought indicators in the Upper Colorado River Basin under future climate change

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Remote Tropical and Sub-tropical Response to Amazon Deforestation

Climate Dynamics

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin

NOAA Climate Assessment Report

Assessing the robustness of snow-based drought indicators in the Upper Colorado River Basin under future climate change

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Remote Tropical and Sub-tropical Response to Amazon Deforestation

Climate Dynamics

Estimating soil evaporation using drying rates based on satellite-based soil moisture

Remote Sensing

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin

NOAA Climate Assessment Report

Assessing the robustness of snow-based drought indicators in the Upper Colorado River Basin under future climate change

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Remote Tropical and Sub-tropical Response to Amazon Deforestation

Climate Dynamics

Estimating soil evaporation using drying rates based on satellite-based soil moisture

Remote Sensing

Understanding the 2011 Upper Missouri River Basin Floods in the Context of a Changing Climate

Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

Climate Response to Amazon Forest Replacement by Heterogeneous Crop Cover

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Diagnosing nonlinearities in the local and remote responses to partial Amazon deforestation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin

NOAA Climate Assessment Report

Assessing the robustness of snow-based drought indicators in the Upper Colorado River Basin under future climate change

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Remote Tropical and Sub-tropical Response to Amazon Deforestation

Climate Dynamics

Estimating soil evaporation using drying rates based on satellite-based soil moisture

Remote Sensing

Understanding the 2011 Upper Missouri River Basin Floods in the Context of a Changing Climate

Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies

CLMcrop yields and water requirements: Avoided impacts by choosing RCP 4.5 over 8.5

Climatic Change